Booting real RT11 on a Heath H-11

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Mon Jul 26 03:02:27 2004

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:24:06PM -0700, Robert Armstrong wrote:
> Actually, I want to do something similar to Ethan's old boss, except
> that I plan to add a hard disk by using a Dilog DI-602 card. It
> attaches to a standard MFM disk and emulates a RL02 controller and, best
> of all, it's only a double module. It'll fit the backplane easily.

I have something similar, a DQ-614 I pulled from a DataRAM Qbus box.
 
> The only problem is that the boot ROMs, which are on the WH-27 card,
> don't know how to boot a RL02. Any ideas?

What my boss did was to pull the floppy controller and use a BDV-11
bootstrap/terminator. It has the DL boot on it.

-ethan

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