PDP-11/73 booting!

[Gordon JC Pearce]

David Betz wrote:
> Well, I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that I was  unable 
> to fix my RL01 cable. I tried a few approaches to reconnect  the pins I 
> could see were disconnected and wasn't able to get it to  work. However, 
> the good news is that I was able to acquire another  cable and that 
> fixed the problem entirely. In fact, the PDP-11/73  booted off the RL01 
> pack the first time I powered it up. I have three  packs and was able to 
> read all of them. One contains RT-11 V5.5,  another is a TSX-Plus system 
> disk but appears just to boot RT-11SJ.  It does have lots of files on it 
> with ".tsx" extensions but doesn't  seem to boot TSX. The third is a 
> blank scratch pack.

You need to actually run TSX.  The bit you want it TSX.SAV iirc.

Gordon.