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  • Progress! New SIMH RSTS/E V10.1

    From Ronald Hudson@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 25 12:40:17 2023
    Hi Everyone,

    I have been just able to get SIMH and RSTS on the air, I have my DZ's properly set up so I can simply telnet in from my laptop. As of right now, I don't think I should expose this machine to the Internet as a whole.

    The machine runs non-stop on my server, simh is running under screen, a terminal multiplexer that lets me 'detach' simh and leave it in the background.

    I have created myself a no-power user, so I have [1,2] login, and my login

    Currently, I am not sure what range of dates this machine will accept at boot-time, it seems to only want dates in the year 1965. Any ideas?

    Did real PDP/11s with RSTS ever have card readers?

    I will need to read up on how to install other programs - notably Fortran.

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  • From John H Reinhardt@21:1/5 to Ronald Hudson on Fri Aug 25 14:56:45 2023
    On 8/25/2023 2:40 PM, Ronald Hudson wrote:


    Did real PDP/11s with RSTS ever have card readers?


    We had one a Rose-Hulman on our 11/70 in the 70's and early 80's I can't remember the model #

    I will need to read up on how to install other programs - notably Fortran.



    John H. Reinhardt

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  • From Dave McGuire@21:1/5 to Ronald Hudson on Tue Aug 29 21:37:22 2023
    On 8/25/23 15:40, Ronald Hudson wrote:
    Did real PDP/11s with RSTS ever have card readers?

    OS notwithstanding, PDP11s could have card readers. DEC rebadged a
    few manufacturers' readers, and sold the CR11 interface to control them.
    We have a couple of these (readers and CR11s) at LSSM, but none are
    set up yet.

    -Dave

    --
    Dave McGuire, President/Curator
    Large Scale Systems Museum
    New Kensington, PA

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  • From Ronald Hudson@21:1/5 to Dave McGuire on Tue Aug 29 20:13:17 2023
    On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 6:37:25 PM UTC-7, Dave McGuire wrote:
    On 8/25/23 15:40, Ronald Hudson wrote:
    Did real PDP/11s with RSTS ever have card readers?
    OS notwithstanding, PDP11s could have card readers. DEC rebadged a
    few manufacturers' readers, and sold the CR11 interface to control them.
    We have a couple of these (readers and CR11s) at LSSM, but none are
    set up yet.

    -Dave

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    Dave McGuire, President/Curator
    Large Scale Systems Museum
    New Kensington, PA

    Hmm. Then SIMH might have a card reader for RSTS/E - Batch jobs!

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  • From Johnny Billquist@21:1/5 to Ronald Hudson on Wed Aug 30 10:41:02 2023
    On 2023-08-30 05:13, Ronald Hudson wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 6:37:25 PM UTC-7, Dave McGuire wrote:
    On 8/25/23 15:40, Ronald Hudson wrote:
    Did real PDP/11s with RSTS ever have card readers?
    OS notwithstanding, PDP11s could have card readers. DEC rebadged a
    few manufacturers' readers, and sold the CR11 interface to control them.
    We have a couple of these (readers and CR11s) at LSSM, but none are
    set up yet.

    -Dave

    --
    Dave McGuire, President/Curator
    Large Scale Systems Museum
    New Kensington, PA

    Hmm. Then SIMH might have a card reader for RSTS/E - Batch jobs!

    Possible. But batch jobs were also run with a file as control.

    In fact, under RSX, the card reader despooler to batch is actually
    broken, and have been for many years without anyone noticing. I guess
    noone have been using cards for batch control in ages. :-)

    Johnny

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