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… 
> 
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