Thank you Johnny. I will look for those documents. To be honest I knew that the lines of hex were instructions of course but I honestly didn't know what they were for. I only have tape experience on a then new HP/UX server and that was over 20 years ago. I would like to thank all of for your advice and I am definitely putting getting this to work on my short list. Thank you Ray
On Oct 9, 2016 7:35 PM, "Johnny Billquist" <[email protected]> wrote: > Uh... The bootstrap listed there is for the 11/780. It does not work for > any other model (the 11/785 is just a faster 11/780). > > The MtXinu manuals (do anyone have them around) had the bootstraps for > tape on all the old VAXen (11/780, 11/750, 11/730 and 8600). > > Johnny > > On 2016-10-09 16:40, Ray Jewhurst wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have use the VAX 11/780-5 simulator for quite some time now and feel >> pretty comfortable with them so I thought I would play around with the >> other pre-MicroVAX simulators and have had no luck with them. I tried >> using the "recipes: from gunkies.org <http://gunkies.org> to set up some >> configurations and nothing works. (I know the 11/730 has some hardware >> differences, so that one is the least of my concerns.) Attempting to >> install 3BSD onto the 11/750 gives me a "0000010 HALT" and with the 8600 >> I can get all the way to the initial boot and I get a kernel panic. Now >> I will admit I haven't tried different deposits and frankly I don't >> understand very well how they work but I would really like to "try" >> these machines. Also on a similar note I think that we should either >> help to revive gunkies.org <http://gunkies.org> or find a new place to >> share our system "recipes" and configurations. For example, in the text >> file that comes with DOS-11 there are instructions that don't apply to >> that version of DOS and I would love to share a revised version of said >> instructions. >> >> Thanks, >> Ray >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >> >> > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: [email protected] || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
_______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
