Re: [Simh] Console floppy and VAX 780

2016-02-15 Thread Johnny Billquist
First let me point out that I have not looked at that installation image, so I have no idea what it is. On 2016-02-15 14:38, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi, I’m trying to boot http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DEC/vax/vms/BB-D782B-BE__VMS_V1.5_1600.zip, mostly for interest’s sake. I presume t

Re: [Simh] Console floppy and VAX 780

2016-02-15 Thread Wilm Boerhout
Zachary Kline schreef op 15-2-2016 om 14:38: Hi, I’m trying to boot http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DEC/vax/vms/BB-D782B-BE__VMS_V1.5_1600.zip, mostly for interest’s sake. I presume this is an installation tape of some sort. I’ve tried on the VaxSserver 3900 simulator, but always seem

Re: [Simh] Console floppy and VAX 780

2016-02-15 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, I’m trying to boot http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DEC/vax/vms/BB-D782B-BE__VMS_V1.5_1600.zip, mostly for interest’s sake. I presume this is an installation tape of some sort. I’ve tried on the VaxSserver 3900 simulator, but always seem to get a “DevOffline,” message for Mua0:, the

Re: [Simh] Console floppy and VAX 780

2016-02-14 Thread Johnny Billquist
I'm not sure I understand the question. Get what working? Do you have a real 11/780? Because the simh VAX-11/780 do not use the floppies, as it don't actually emulate the PDP-11 that is used in the FE. Johnny On 2016-02-15 08:02, Zachary Kline wrote: I’ve been reading about the VAX 78

[Simh] Console floppy and VAX 780

2016-02-14 Thread Zachary Kline
I’ve been reading about the VAX 780 tonight, and kind of curious what I could get to run with it. I have what seems to be a tape of VMS 1.5 from Bitsavers, but it doesn’t seem straight-forward to boot. I’m wondering if anybody has managed to get this working. There’s supposedly a “Fload,” comman