PDP-11/44 boot prompt

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Sun Nov 1 21:01:34 1998

>Eric Smith wrote:

> Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> No, they are normally an internal unit in the CPU rack.

Jerome Fine replies:

I had not realized that the TU-58 was normally an internal unit. The
one I picked up some years ago was an external unit. Perhaps it came
from a VAX 750 rather than a PDP-11/44 which is what I thought
I had remembered.

> IMAO, the only thing they are useful for it reading TU58 media and
> transferring it to some more reasonable disk or tape.

Yes, I agree. But every so often, I am asked to read or write one.

> The TU58 actually is a serial peripheral; the 11/44 has a dedicated serial
> line to it. There is published C source code that can be run on another
> computer to emulate a TU58 drive.

Any idea of where that "C" source code is? It might be necessary to
replace the TU-58.

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
Year 2000 Solutions for RT-11 Operating Systems and Applications
(Sources not always required)
Received on Sun Nov 01 1998 - 21:01:34 GMT