DEC Diagnostic Disks (incl long listing)

From: Christian Fandt <cfandt_at_netsync.net>
Date: Fri May 7 20:33:52 2004

This is great Pete, thanks very much. I printed and filed the index with my
disks. In a month or two I may have time to fire up my Micro PDP-11 and see
how they work. But first . . .

Two more questions:

1.) Are the HELP.TXT files found on a couple of disks fairly detailed or
are they rather terse? Is an XXDP manual online anywhere? I checked
bitsavers.org already - just something on DEC/X11 extant. In one of those
X11 manuals mention is made of an XXDP+ manual with an Order Number of
AC-F348?-MC (Yes, there's a "?" printed in that number. See page three of
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/XXDP/AC-F055D-MC_X11crossRef.pdf .)

2.) Pete indicates these are a basic set of XXDP (XXDP++) disks for a
microPDP-11/23. What functionality will they have on my 11/73 (or a 11/53
if I build one up from a heap of parts on hand)??

Thanks for your help on this folks.

-Chris F.

Upon the date 08:30 AM 5/4/04 +0100, Pete Turnbull said something like:
>On May 3, 19:00, Christian Fandt wrote:
> > I've got a set of DEC diagnostic floppies (RX50) and I don't have the
> > decoding scheme at hand to figure out the part number and therefore
>their
> > usage. I don't know which machine these run on -- Micro PDP-11 or
>MicroVAX.
> >
> > I sort of suspect they *may* be for my uVAX II because they came with
>a
> > heap of other goodies, including a working uPDP-11/73, at the same
>time I
> > got said uVAX II.
> >
> > Given the part numbers listed below could anyone tell me about them
>(other
> > than the obvious ;-) )?
> >
> > BL-T540B-M1 CZUFDB1 USER TESTS
> > BL-T541B-M1 CZXD1B1 FIELD SERVICE TESTS 1
> > BL-T542B-MC CZXD2B0 FIELD SERVICE TESTS 2
> > BL-T565B-MC CZXD3B0 FIELD SERVICE TESTS 3
> > BL-T583B-MC CZXD4B0 FIELD SERVICE TESTS 4
>
>These are a basic set of XXDP (XXDP++) disks for a microPDP-11/23.
>
>Here's a listing from my set:
>
>DIR DU1: (CZXD1B1 Field Service Tests 1)
>
>ENTRY# FILNAM.EXT DATE LENGTH START VERSION
>
> 1 HUDIB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 5 000073 ?.?
> 2 HSAAD1.SYS 22-JUN-83 24 000100 ?.?
> 3 HMDLD1.SYS 4-AUG-83 17 000130 ?.?
> 4 HMDXC1.SYS 4-AUG-83 17 000151 ?.?
> 5 HMDYC1.SYS 4-AUG-83 17 000172 ?.?
> 6 HDDDC0.SYS 3-MAR-83 3 000213 ?.?
> 7 HDDKB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 2 000216 ?.?
> 8 HDDLC0.SYS 3-MAR-83 4 000220 ?.?
> 9 HDMMB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 3 000224 ?.?
> 10 HDMTB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 3 000227 ?.?
> 11 HDMSB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 3 000232 ?.?
> 12 HMDQA1.SYS 4-AUG-83 17 000235 ?.?
> 13 HDDQA0.SYS 24-MAR-83 4 000257 ?.?
> 14 XTSAA0.OBJ 14-JAN-82 10 000263
> 15 HDDXB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 3 000275 ?.?
> 16 HDDYB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 3 000300 ?.?
> 17 HDKBB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 1 000303 ?.?
> 18 HDLPA0.SYS 3-MAR-83 1 000304 ?.?
> 19 HDPDB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 3 000305 ?.?
> 20 XRQAB0.OBJ 1-OCT-83 18 000310
> 21 HDPTB0.SYS 3-MAR-83 1 000332 ?.?
> 22 HELP .TXT 3-MAR-83 14 000333 <<<<<<<
> 23 UPD2 .BIN 3-MAR-83 25 000351

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