More HP1000's, and bootstrapping old systems in general.

From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
Date: Thu Jan 17 18:38:07 2002

Hmmm, does anyone on interex understand this format?

Bill McDermith wrote:

> >From the hp users group, interex, you can get the RTE-6 OS, but only
> in fst format, which is some sort of tape dump/backup format that I
> cannot (yet) decode, so I'm not sure how to build a loadable system...
> The manuals are also available... If anyone knows how to decode
> this to build bootable media, please let me know.
> I believe this is under a sort of hobbist license (i.e. noncommercial
> use...)
>
> I would assume that all RTE systems post RTE-IV needed a 21MX
> style computer (1000 series...) with the memory management option
> installed (on later computers it may not have been an 'option'...)
> Please correct me if I'm wrong...
>
> Bill McDermith
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Shannon" <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:37 AM
> Subject: Re: More HP1000's, and bootstrapping old systems in general.
>
> > The 9885 is listed in HP documentation as the 12732A flexible disk system,
> with
> > a capacity of 500 K bytes per drive, 4 drives maximum.
> >
> > It is supported under RTE-II, RTE-III, RTE-IV, RTE-IVB, and RTE-M.
> >
> > It is not supported under RTE-L or RTE-XL.
> >
> >
> ...snip...snip...snip...
>
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Received on Thu Jan 17 2002 - 18:38:07 GMT

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