Has anyone found the best way to preserve paper tape software? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Dec 1999

...
 I really like  "plug and play" Qbus systems
but I don't think there is a
paper tape interface nor a DECTape one? 
There certainly are paper tape interfaces - just about any serial card will
do for that.  If you want 20mA and reader control, a good choice is the DLV11-F
or the plain old DLV11.

...
 >The beauty if that a 11/73 series will run most
PDP-11 unix and PUPS has
>the license for any version at $100 and also an archive of PDP-11 versions
>of unix. 
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 I would really like to run Unix on a PDP-11 (hopefully
a 45 with all core
and FPU) but have never found the software. 
You *aren't* working in a vacuum, you know :-).  For the past several
years, Bob Supnik's emulators have come with Unix V5 through V7
binary distributions (see ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/sim/ ),
and Warren Toomey has an excellent archive available as well as
easy terms for the Unix source license you'll need to access it
(see http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/ and click on "PUPS".  Note
that Adfa is offline for the summer holidays - I think they're
back up on Jan 3.)

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