Loading software onto a real PDP11

On Fri, 20 May 2011, Rob Jarratt wrote: Bah, vtserver sucks. It doesn't run on small machines (and has problems on machines it officially supports, it never worked on my 11/45), the code is frightening (IIRC it's a 2.9BSD stand-alone program). I either use KSERVE/Kermit (on an already running host), or my own minimalistic dump/restore program that I wrote just to learn more about the architecture. I did an RK05 version that I used for my 11/45 when the first thing I wanted to do was to dump/archive the disks that came with the machine. The dump program was entered via ASCII upload to the console monitor from a DOS PC. Of course, you need an appropriate receive program on the other end. I'd recommend that you write your own RL01 version (of course, you want to archive your disks before you overwrite them!). Here's my RK05 dump (I need to find the source somewhere, but you can easily disassemble it with the help of the reference card - oh, that's how I assembled it...). Start address is 1000. Christian L 1000 D 005037 D 177570 D 005037 D 177412 D 005002 D 012703 D 177404 D 012700 D 2000 D 012701 D 1000 D 010037 D 177410 D 012737 D 177400 D 177406 D 105713 D 100376 D 012713 D 5 D 105713 D 100376 D 032713 D 40000 D 001013 D 105737 D 177564 D 100375 D 112037 D 177566 D 077106 D 005202 D 010237 D 177570 D 000137 D 1016 D 010200 D 052700 D 100000 D 010037 D 177570 D 013704 D 177412 D 012700 D 3000 D 013720 D 177402 D 013720 D 177404 D 010420 D 012713 D 1 D 105713 D 100376 D 005204 D 010405 D 042705 D 177760 D 020527 D 14 D 103404 D 042704 D 17 D 062704 D 20 D 010437 D 177412 D 012713 D 11 D 012700 D 3000 D 000137 D 1062