I am very interested in these drivers! I am new to the group please let me know the proper procedure/process.
Thanks so much, Sue Skonetdki VMS Software Inc., > On Aug 28, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > > Hello, guys, > > While rummaging through recovered backups from my MicroVAX I found a few > items that might be of interest to the group. > > I got an MDB mag tape interface (quite possibly the ONLY Pertec Unformatted > controller ever made for Q-bus) that follows the MT-11 register format. > There was no driver for this. I got a homebrew MT-11 driver for Unibus > machines from somebody at work, and hacked it up to assemble for VMS 4.7 and > adjust to the quirks of the MDB board (which were REALLY minor). > > I also have a driver for my Jupiter 7 for the MicroVAX. Thus used a DRV11-WA > DMA interface with some wire-wrapped glue logic to adapt to the Jupiter's > 50-pin interface bus. It is based on the stock DRV11-WA driver, with some > additional logic to handle the handshakes between Jupiter and the DRV11. > Additionally, I built a graphics library based on the NASA min-Vicar image > processing suite, which was a hideous hack job that ran on the PDP-11. That > used pre-assigned, numbered files. I generalized it to use normal VMS files > of arbitrary size, but otherwise kept most of the original functions. I used > the VMS table driven parser, tparse, to parse most of the commands. > > I also knew a fair bit about Versatec printers back then, if anybody ever > wants to get one of those hideous machines running. > > If anybody is interested in these drivers, etc. let me know. > > Jon Sue Skonetski VP of Customer Advocacy sue.skonet...@vmssoftware.com Office: +1 (978) 451-0116 Mobile: +1 (603) 494-9886 Mit freundlichen Grüßen – Avec mes meilleures salutations
