In the “olden days”, by floppy, tape, or paper tape. In most cases you could order the media through Kermit project at Columbia University. In the case of PDP-11s, Sometimes rolled in with DECUS SIG tape trees.
Tim N3QE > On Jan 23, 2018, at 3:18 PM, Bryan Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > But I've always wondered - how do you get Kermit onto the target machine? > >> On 23 January 2018 at 20:16, Jordi Guillaumes Pons >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Jordi Guillaumes i Pons >> [email protected] >> HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES >> >> >> >>> On 23 Jan 2018, at 21:13, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> SAV files would be binaries (RT11 format). BAS are source files. >>> >>> There are a number of solutions. Text files you could load via paper tape, >>> with the text file attached to the SIMH tape reader. That's not as good an >>> answer for binaries though it could be made to work. >>> >>> Magtape or disk are better solutions. Disk works well if you have a >>> program that can write disk images in a format the target OS knows. That's >>> easy in this case; you can use my "flx" (RSTS File Exchange) program to do >>> this. There's an older version written in C, a newer one written in Python >>> 3. For the former, look in svn://akdesign.dyndns.org/flx/branches/V2.6, >>> for the latter, in svn://akdesign.dyndns.org/flx/trunk. There's >>> documentation for both in those respective directories. (Commments and bug >>> reports, especially for the new version, would be appreciated.) >> >> There’s always kermit… > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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