15 Jun
2005
15 Jun
'05
4:34 p.m.
Hi everybody,
first I want to thank everybody who gave me a hint. These were very
helpful. Everybody was right. I just did'nt know where to start looking
for more info - the doc stack is quite huge....
My new state:
I have found the $-info in the Emulex manual. And I learned how to
enable/disable the different bootstrap codes. Now my machine comes up with:
TESTING MEMORY
0256.KW
START?
I begin to understand what's going on :-)
> Interesting number of serial lines on there. 8 on
the DLV11-Js, and
> two on the CPU (one of which is the console, as you've clearly
> discovered). I'd guess this used to run RSX-11M.
Yes, this machine ran
RSX11-M. I also have an original licence for
RSX-11M. Hope to get it working again.
With my machine came a lot of 8" diskettes (perhaps more than 100), they
don't look original.
And there is an Ampex 996 fixed/removable (combi) disk drive (80+16MB)
with SMD interface. I will fetch that tomorrow. The unit powers up but
I'm missing an address plug for it and the "ready upper" light does not
work. Hope to get it working without too much trouble.
I will see if I can get the PDP11 to boot from harddisk. Would be cool.
I'll try to keep my harddisk contents because I don't know how to get
new software into the machine and back.
Hope to know more, soon.
Good night,
Philipp :-)