TMSCP boot for PDP-11?

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Wed May 17 06:04:57 2000

>Hello all, does anyone have a bootstrap for a PDP-11 from a TMSCP tape
>drive?

  Have you tried the one at

 http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/

in the section you get to by clicking on 'bootstraps'?

> My sigma RQD11 has an MSCP bootstrap that I can enable but it
>doesn't boot from tape and the BDV11 only knows how to boot from DX, DY,
>and DL (RL0x?).

Yeah, installing software from tape was a rather late option for Q-bus
machines, which started out (marketing-wise) at the "low" end of the
PDP-11 spectrum.

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