RT-11/RSX-11/RSTS freeware CD-ROM

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Thu Jul 29 10:42:38 1999

>>>Seriously, although this is actually the ideal way for many of us to go
>>>with enjoying our Q-bus or/and Unibus PDP-11's (MicroVAXen et al, too), we
>>>cannot easily find such host adaptors nor could justify paying a couple
>>>hundred (or more) for them from the used market. For me, this is a hobby.
>>
>>Can't you just network a PC with a CDROM drive to the old DEC stuff?
>>
>
>That is another very good way to get SIG stuff into our PDP's. Actually,
>with this, a CDROM is not needed. Just download files from metalab into the
>PC and squirt them thru the network into the PDP. But once again, I would
>have to find parts, etc. to setup the PDP's onto a network.

There is always terminal emulation and kermit.
Received on Thu Jul 29 1999 - 10:42:38 BST

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