rescue needed (dec pdp & vax, rt11, maybe DG)

Jerome Fine replies: THANK YOU, Jay, VERY MUCH!! With respect to the hard copy documentation, it is probably best if Al (or someone else who is prepared to scan the documents) receive this material. The hardware is already an area where I am overloaded. BUT, the images of ALL and any files would help a great deal. Note that I do NOT require any original material, although I can probably still help with RL02 packs or floppy media. I can also read TK50 (even TK70) tapes and any 50 pin SCSI hard drives if they exist. MFM and ESDI hard drives would require the same controller, although I have RQDX1,2,3 and Sigma ESDI controllers. ALL RT-11 binary distributions would be helpful - even if just to check the current versions, specifically V04.00 and later (after February 1980). Prior versions of RT-11 may not be complete, so these could be extremely helpful. Layered products are always helpful: FORTRAN IV and FORTRAN 77 Basic and Multi-User Basic Decus C and DEC C Pascal Other commercial applications????? Anyone who actually picks up this stuff, please contact me regarding machine readable RT-11 files, especially all RT-11 and layered products distributions. There is a file (RT11V10.ISO.zip) at: http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/dists/ which can be burned to a CD (first UnZiped) which contains 13 RT-11 versions (V01-15 to V05.03). Should there be sufficient interest, then sooner (rather than later - otherwise later) RT11V20.ISO will be produced which also contains layered products. All ISO files will be shared without charge by having them available for free download where there is no conflict with the existing policy of the copyright holder. For those ISO files where there is a conflict, they will be shared privately with individuals who will be able to share the files at a future date as opposed to being held only by myself. This will avoid a future situation where they might be lost - although based on my personal experience, they really seems to be insufficient interest for me to worry. But since I do the work for the personal challenge, the one or two individuals who actually have used the CD (I was on the telephone with that fellow one day when he needed to use the CD for the first time and I helped talk him through booting the CD on a real DEC PDP-11 with an RD42) are sufficient to keep up my interest! As for eBay, I can't stop anyone for including the ISO file in a compilation, but it will not be my doing. Since that has not happened after many years, I can be hopeful that it will not ever take place. RT-11 Distributions V5-0 is available to those who have a legal license for V05.07 of RT-11 and contains the additional 11 versions from V05.04 to V05.07 of RT-11. Both CDs can boot RT-11 with V05.03 being on the first RT-11 partition of each CD. Alternatively, the ISO image file of the CD can be used as a container file with SIMH or E11 to boot RT-11. Mentec allows hobby users to legally use SIMH and V05.03 of RT-11, so V1-0 of the CD (actually the container file RT11DV10.ISO) can legally be used by hobby users with SIMH. Just: ATTACH RQ0: RT11DV10.ISO SET RQ0: LOCK BOOT RQ0: Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.