Ok, I took pictures of some of the disks and posted it on the discord
channel minicomputers. I'm curious to see if RSTS/E loads, it might need
an RD52 or 53 drive in order to work. I can drag out an RD54 and
format/test/give it a shot here but the only other drives I have right
now are RD50 and 51's.
C
On 8/4/2023 3:38 PM, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk wrote:
Chris,
Thanks for your kind offer to re-image the third floppy!
May I politely repeat Mattis' request to scan the disk labels?
I'm especially interested in the DEC order numbers (like "BL-XXXXX-XX")
that are printed on them - I use them as the primary key in my DECdoc
database.
The floppy names (e.g. "ROOT #1") are very useful/important sometimes, too.
Thank you again for your understanding and willingness to help!
Ulli
Am Fr., 4. Aug. 2023 um 20:49 Uhr schrieb Christopher Zach via cctalk <
[email protected]>:
Thank you I will rescan the third disk.
On August 4, 2023 12:33:31 PM EDT, "Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk" <
[email protected]> wrote:
I did some testing on the image sets using simh.
I had to prepare the images first using lbn2rx50
<http://www.chdickman.com/pdp11/>, because simh expects them to be in
logical order.
Results:
ULTRIX-11 V3.0: All images good
MicroRSTS V2.1: The third image throws an error:
*sim> ATT RQ2 RSTS21-3.RX5%SIM-INFO: RQ2: 'RSTS21-3.RX5' Contains a RSTS
File system%SIM-INFO: RQ2: Pack ID: MICR3 Revision Level: 1.2 Pack
Clustersize: 1%SIM-INFO: RQ2: Last Unallocated Sector In File System:
799sim> c?Error opening Backup set?Device hung or write lockedMount volume
3 on device _DU2:Press RETURN when ready:*
MicroRSX V2.1: Have not found out yet which one of the images is the one
to
start with. Is the image set complete?
I thought that RSX4-I.IMG <https://www.crystel.com/pdp/os/RSX4-I.IMG> was
the one (with an I instead of a 1), but all I got was:
*Trap stack push abort, PC: 000014 (000040)*
Maybe that image is bad, too ...
Ulli
Am Do., 27. Juli 2023 um 00:55 Uhr schrieb Chris Zach via cctalk <
[email protected]>:
Ok, files are up on https://www.crystel.com/pdp/os and
https://www.crystel.com/pro350
MicroRSX, Ultrix11, MicroRSTS/E, and um spss
On 7/26/2023 1:51 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk wrote:
Chris,
I would be interested in getting a copy of the SSPS/X software for
POS. I have a manual for SPSS/11 and would love to try to get the
software
running under RSX11M+ if possible.
Thanks,
Mark
On Jul 26, 2023, at 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
From: Chris Zach <[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]
Subject: [cctalk] Old Professional/350 software, any of this out
there
Date: July 26, 2023 at 9:30:10 AM CDT
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Starting to go through my boxes of POS stuff. I know of course that
3.2
is out there (minus the Pro/Communications option which has a bad disk
in
the distro) however are these disks out there now?
Pro/Venix 1.0 on floppies
POS V2.0a on floppies
POS version 1.5 (with test diskette, maintenance application, a thing
called Pro/Pre labelled "Diskette system", system overview and
instruction
disks)
POS V1.7 (I have that here somewhere)
Pro/Basic Version 1.0 and 1.2
SPSS/X For Professional (this is a really interesting one, anyone
heard
of this?)
If so let me know and I won't copy them. If not I'll go over to the
mighty Deskpro/XE and start sucking the data off for archives....
Thanks!
Chris
(Hoping to find old drivers or scaffolding or something that will
give
me a hint into how DEC ported POS)
