11 Dec
1999
11 Dec
'99
1:54 p.m.
Daniel wrote:
A few 8Es and another 8A coming in this week. Next
weekend a UFO will be
dropping off 50+ PDP8s and PDP11s.
Jerome Fine replies:
Will you be keeping all the PDP-11 systems? While I may need a divorce
if I bring in any more, some might just entice me. I am in Toronto and
would consider local pickup.
I just received 2 PRO350 systems and I would like to set up a hard
drive, but I can't seem to either set the jumpers correctly on an RD51
or it needs a FORMAT command which produces an error. The
system will boot RT-11 from the RX50 floppy and I can do a:
"DUMP/TERM DW0:"
on an RD51 which has DS1,DS2,DS3 all IN the circuit for an RD51
which has P/OS on the drive and I don't want to loose that drive with
P/OS just in case I am curious in the future. When I configure the
"DIP" pack (the black plastic with pins that are cut to set up the DS
settings and the other jumpers - the one beside the terminating resistors)
on a spare RD51 that I have, I can neither do the DUMP nor do a
FORMAT - which I thought that a PRO350 was allowed to do. The
DW0: drive is installed and loaded, I just get an "Input error" message
for the DUMP and a different error for the FORMAT - I think it was
something like "Bad device". I should have marked it down.
Incidentally, the RD51 drive light never goes off on the PRO350. Is
that correct?
Any suggestions?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine