Al Kossow wrote:
On 7/10/12 8:18 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>Thanks to Bob Rosenbloom sending me a copy
physically, I just scanned
>this for bitsavers, but Al hasn't moved it there yet.
Just took care of it. I have a Terak 8010B and a Tek 8562 running now, and
have
been busy working on recovering bits. Expect Tnix 2.1 bits to be uploaded
soon.
The drive in the 8562 is a Micropolis 1304 on a Xebec 1401 (SASI) so there
is
some chance of getting a replacement some day. Both drives in the units
have sticky
head actuators. The usual opening of the HDA and fiddling with the actuator
were
required to get one of the two going, and that one had the native
programming and
x86 tools packages on it.
I'm looking for a copy of a bootable Terak double density RT11 disk image,
and
a parallel keyboard for the 8010C that I have.
All of the RT images I have try booting from the non-existant SD controller.
UCSD Pascal II.0 can apparently deal with either kind. The docs on John
Foust's
site also say it should work with the high resolution display in the 8010C.
It
did seem to boot with one, but I have to puzzle out the pinouts of the 15
pin
monitor connector on the 8010C. Actually, I need to do that for all of the
connectors
since there only seems to be documentation around for the pinouts of the
8010A.
Oddly, the documentation for the variable density conversion kit claims
that the
conversion floppy is bootable, but it doesn't appear to be. I haven't tried
manually
putting the DDens bootstrap and monitor onto a floppy disk image yet, still
have to
figure out how the DDens floppies are laid out (they use IBM MFM encoding,
so they're
incompatible with RX02's).
I tried the 11/73 out of the 8562 and it fails to boot II.0 (11/02 and 23
boards work).
Interresting Al, but what the heck has it todo with my Tek 611?
Regards,
Holm
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