I got the power cord for the microvax 3800 in the mail today. I checked the fans as someone suggested, they Spin nice and smooth. I Iooked over everything, nothing seems out of place. I powered the machine on. Very quiet. I expected it to be much louder.
I turned the machine on and nothing exploded. The KA660 cpu board has that little red lcd display ion it. A F is displayed. Not sure if that is normal or not. I need a console cable. I have a vt100 that works over here. What is the cable called, is it something i could buy, or is it something that is easy enough to make? --Devin On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:37 PM, devin davison <lyokob...@gmail.com> wrote: > "So a 9-track open-reel SCSI drive should work just as well as a DDS, > DLT, SLT drive." > > Oh wow. i had not even considered that. I have a pdp 11 with a beast of a > 9 track tape drive in is's own rack, that would be interesting if i could > get a scsi tape drive for the vax and use some big tapes to move data > between the two. > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Johnny Billquist <b...@update.uu.se> > wrote: > >> On 2015-12-08 17:02, Paul Koning wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 2015-12-07 20:36, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: >>> >>>> On 7 December 2015 at 14:29, Johnny Billquist <b...@update.uu.se> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think all (modern PDP-11) OSes can install from TMSCP tapes. RSTS/E >>>>> is >>>>> more picky than some others, though, if I remember right... >>>>> >>>>> Yes, RSTS/E installs from TMSCP just fine (as can RSX-11/M+); I know >>>> that in simh you can bring up Ultrix-11 3.1 only on TMSCP >>>> (specifically a TK50), at least if you want all of the packages to >>>> install. I've installed RSTS/E 10.1-L from MASSBUS, TS11, TM11, and >>>> TMSCP in my various experimentation with emulation, it really doesn't >>>> care what the tape is as long as your SYSGEN device is consistent. >>>> >>> >>> One detail on "it doesn't care what the tape is": RSTS kits on 1/2 inch >>> tape come in 800 and 1600 bpi versions. They have different boot blocks, >>> each of them designed to work with all tape drives/controllers supported on >>> RSTS that support the density in question. For example, the 1600 bpi kit >>> doesn't boot on a TM11 controller, and the 800 bpi kit won't boot on a >>> TMSCP controller. This matters if you try to boot one in an emulator where >>> physical tape density doens't have any meaning. >>> >> >> Unsubscribed from cctalk now, so I'm not sure if this will get through or >> not. >> >> The RSX installation tape should boot from all tape devices, no matter >> what density. The disk boot blocks are somewhat more specific. MSCP sits >> together with massbus and RK06/RK07. RK05, RL01/02, RP02/03 as well as P/OS >> drivers are separate boot blocks. Of those, only the RL02 is actually >> supported by M+. So in practice, you only see one of two disk boot blocks >> around for M+. 11M use pretty much anything, I'd think. >> >> Johnny >> >> >
