PDP-11/44 boot prompt

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun Nov 1 17:55:30 1998

>If anyone has not been able to figure out the answer to that question,
>or with any of the other PDP-11/44 systems, I am looking for a TU-58
>tape drive which I understand came as an external unit with this system.

I know on mine, it's located in the same rack as the CPU and the RX02
drives. It's not external. They did make external ones, though I don't
have one.

>Does anyone have one that they are not using? I understand they were
>used for diagnostics and if the tapes and manuals are still available, they
>might still be useful. Otherwise, I have some old tapes I would like to
>read.

It's possible to run RT-11 off of them, which I believe is where the
external drive came into play.

                        Zane
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Received on Sun Nov 01 1998 - 17:55:30 GMT

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