30 Mar
2000
30 Mar
'00
3 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com <CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, March 31, 2000 12:42 PM
Subject: RE: I need some PDP-11 RT11 archiving software
under
>I am spending all my time right now packing and
rackmounting - I have no
>time to write anything. I will have some people come over and feed in the
>paper tape this weekend. While I won't be able to archive most of it, I do
>hope to at least read in most of the source code on paper tape. (I have
over
>310 PDP-1 paper tapes alone).
>
>This program needs to be *very* easy to use and hopefully supports
>X/Y-MODEM. I will set up a terminal program at this end that supports 32
>character file names (windows 98). This program would have to run under
>RT11-V3B, or RT11V4 BL. Hopefully it would send the code down a serial
line
separate serial
port.
Umm, what's wrong with Kermit? The latest Kermit for RT does just fine RT-11 V4, and Kermit is available for just about every
other piece
of hardware ever created. See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/
PC05 with a PC11 controller.
It would be really nice if this software just
asked the end user to load a
paper tape, then huit return, and it sends the data read out a separate
serial port, then prompts to load the next one.
What sort of paper tape reader are you using? If it's a serial reader,
you can hook it straight up to a PC-clone running MS-DOS and MS-Kermit
(or Linux and C-Kermit) and archive the tapes that way. Both MS-Kermit
and C-Kermit include powerful scripting languages.
Remember, you *don't* have to start from scratch, others of us have
been archiving this sort of stuff for many years.
I appreciate that. Do you have this archived:
PDP-1 source code.
PDP-11 source code - Dos/Batch-11 , RT11. I also have source code to most of
the packages they released.
If you have this stuff then I won't bother archiving all the source code I
have and pass it on. I did get almost all the source from the original
minicomputers dec knocked out.. alot of it was internal.
john
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