On Jan 2 2006, 14:15, Charles wrote:
So I flipped the restart switch on the CPU, answered
"Y" to
"Start?" and got a message "Please boot from system disk". I have
one other disk pack that is known to have come from a PDP-11, so I
put it in the drive - lo and behold, "Booting up XXDP-XM Extended
Monitor" followed by ... "V2.4, Rev. E1, booted from DL0, 124Kw
memory, Non-Unibus system, restart address 152000, type H for
help".
Looks like I now have a working PDP-11 :)
The pack has 727 files on it whose names are meaningless (to me
anyway). XXDPXM.SYS etc. is obvious but there are hundreds of
files from A to Z with names like "VKMHA0.BIN", "ZAFAC0.BIC" and
some .LIB and .OBJ files too.
What on earth do I have here? Is it something that anyone would be
interested in copying?
You have the diagnostics. Several places have listings of individual
programs, Henk's site being a good example, and you'll find a set of
documents explaining XXDP on my site, at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/PDP-11/XXDP.pdf
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/PDP-11/XXDP.ps is the same
document in its original PostScript form.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York