Installing an operating system on an 11/83

Zane Healy healyzh at avanthar.com
Mon Feb 21 21:11:28 CST 2022


On Feb 21, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
>   I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box.
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>   It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
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> Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller with a digital RH18A 2Gig SCSI drive attached.
> 
> Diag sees drive as RA82.
> 
> It boots and runs the diag disk and XXDP+ just fine.
> 
> I do not have install distributions for any of the 11/83 operating systems.
> 
> Daily driver system is a Windows 10 PC.
> 
> So how do I install an operating system?
> 
> Suggestions please.

You can install RT-11, RSX-11M, and RSX-11M+ from CD-R, I couldn’t figure out how to install RSTS/E from CD-R.

Zane 





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