11/45 is alive (I'm singing "who's johnny")

[Bob Shannon]

My recollections and recommendations...

The boot rom for the DSD drive is already on the 9312 from the 11/34
system.  It is a standard DEC rom, I think RX02.

Also, use the MOS memory from the 11/34 to boot.  I'd recommend you
boot from the DSD drives, or one of the RL01's.  You have several
bootable RL01 packs, but there are still two or three left here.

One of the packs that's still here is the one that has the driver source
for the LincTape drive.

I never had a boot rom for the Linc, and its not really a practical boot
device for RT-11.

No cable for the DSD setup eh?  Hmmm, must still be in the garage....
It is a normal ribbon cable just as you suspect.

As best I recall, the LincTape II supports both DecTape and LincTape
formats (they are not the same).  Way back in the Eli Heffron days
I used to get requests to transfer data from Linc or DecTape and
copy it onto RX02's, but this became painful and we stopped doing
this 'service'.  The drives you have (LincTape II and DSD) are the
very drives I used for this.

I have a bunch of media for the LincTape II drive.  Al K. 'borrowed'
several tapes that had something of interest when he picked up the
MIT CADR as well.  But there are still many tapes here you need to
get.

As for mounting the RL01, there is still an H-960 sitting here!
I think I also have a box of floppy disks for the DSD setup.

You did get the OMSI Pascal packs, right?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
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Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 5:55 PM
Subject: 11/45 is alive (I'm singing "who's johnny")


> The /45 lives, got a console up with the console emulator today. I never 
> did get a blinking lights program to show up right, but I'm too embarassed 
> to admit what likely caused that. But I got a lot of other few instruction 
> programs to work correctly so I moved on to the DL11 and 9312 setup and 
> got it all working. Only have 8K of core, but hey, it's a start. Once I 
> get it to boot from a peripheral I'll take out the loaned cpu set and move 
> mine back in and see where it chokes.
>
> So now I have a few peripheral questions. I was going to put in an RL02 
> drive, but I've been advised against putting one in the same cabinet as 
> the cpu cab is top cooling intake :\ Now I'm moving on instead to hooking 
> up and testing a LincTape II and a DSD440 drive. I found the docs for the 
> DSD440 drive on bitsavers; my drive is missing the controller to drive 
> cable. From those docs it appears to be a straight through 2x13 pin berg 
> connector at each end. Can anyone confirm this? Also, If the DSD440 drive 
> is set for RX01, will it work with the standard dec boot rom (DX) on the 
> 9312? Likewise, if it's set for RX02 emulation will it work with the DY 
> boot room on the 9312? Or does the DSD440 need a unique bootrom?
>
> I also have the LincTape II & controller (&cable), model CO-3000D. 
> However, I don't see any docs for it on bitsavers and my googling gives 
> tons of stuff on the Linc, not the LincTape II. Does anyone have docs for 
> the LincTape II in electronic format? Or better yet... a boot rom for it 
> :>
>
> I have spare boot roms (DP, RP02/03 and DM, RK06/07) that I doubt I'll 
> ever use and would be available for trade.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jay West
>