Hi.
I have one TU-58. Doing a resume:
* The components work at 115 volts, even when you can change the PS current
to 220-240 volts.
* In appeareance the Current flows by the main board of the device (the RED
led indicates so)
* The wire wrapping is the stablished in factory (TU-58 manuals, Bitsavers)
* It has not stablished the 'boot' wire wrap for LSI-11
* I have one DEC console serial cable
* I have too a couple of Dectape II cartridges
With all these stuff, I should like to connect the TU-58 to the Serial Port
of my Laptop and manage the TU-58. The objective is:
* To put a virtual image in the Dectape II from the Laptop
* To dump the content of one Dectape II in the Laptop
The unique option similar to this that I want is one MS-DOS driver in
SpareTime Gizmos, but to use the TU58 as one MS-DOS storage unit. But, what
I have in mind is similar but different at the same time. I want to manage
the TU-58 contents in DEC native format.
I know, in addition, of the existence of some TU-58 emulators, and in fact I
use them from time to time. And I'm not sure if one of these (TU58EM) has
this option available, but sure that someone in the list knows it.
I suppose then that some analysis of the STGiz MS-DOS driver plus the
diverse emulators of the TU-58 would be sufficient to begin to construct
some kind of software for this purpose.
But it's almost sure that someone has encountered this problem in the past
years and encountered one solution for it. Probably even with only one
communications software, a good knowledge of the RSP protocol, an one binary
image.
In the other hand, I am almost sure too that I need a modification (or
better a modified plug) of the Serial Port in the Laptop (9-pin) as the
realized in the SLUs of the PDP-11 to allow the correct manage of the TU-58
from the laptop. I have the documentation of
modifications to do in the SLUs
of the PDP-11, and in fact I did a couple of
modified SLUs some time ago. In
the cas of the laptop it would be neccesary to one male-to-female plug.
The problem is the correct cabling inside it. I assume that I can do the
well-known probe-an-error but sure that exists some contrasted information
about the cable.
Thanks !
SPc.