>tony duell wrote:
Similarly, it could be a useful diagnostic tool to connect the real
TU58 hardware to a known-working (presumably slightly more modern)
machine to see if it's willing to work that way.
Yes. Does such a program exist? Something that will let me send commands
to the TU58 and see what it sends back? Again I could write one, but then
again I want to be sure that when it doesn't work it's a real problem with the
TU58
RT-11 has a DD(X).SYS device driver which I have used
on a PDP-11/83 connected to a DLV11-J. The connection
is straight through with 10 pins to 10 pins (with one pin
usually omitted).
While the TU-58 tape will not have an RT-11 file
structure, you can at least read each raw block
and display the contents:
DUMP/TERM DD0:/ONLY:nnnn
nnnn is in octal unless it also has a decimal point
Let me know if you need anything else to run the
TU-58 with RT-11.
Jerome Fine
