PDP-11/73 booting!

[David Betz]

So you boot the system in RT-11 and then start TSX? Thanks! I'll try  
that. Do you know where I can find a description of TSX?

On Nov 30, 2005, at 6:59 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

> 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.
>