>Rod Smallwood wrote:
I'm not overly worried about it being on TK50 other than knowing that was one of the distribution mediums. So a quick rephrase of the question. I have an 11/83 system with an RX50 and an RD54. How do I install RSTS on it?
Why do you want to use the PDP-11/83? Do you want to run RSTS/E or just exercise the PDP-11/83 hardware? If your answer is running RSTS/E, there is much more convenient hardware than a PDP-11/83. If you want to exercise the PDP-11/83, the solution I understand is to use a hammer when you only have a nail. If you don't know how to prepare a TK50 tape that self boots and then does a restore of RSTS/E, then you might resort to using RT-11. Backup each RT-11 partition under either SimH or Ersatz-11. The restore using the RX50 drive and copy each RT-11 partition to the RD54 from the TK50 file images. Of course, you need to be able to write to a TK50 tape under SimH or Ersatz-11. You also have to take care of block 65535 for each RT-11 partition since I don't know if RT-11 will backup it up. If you need some help with this, I will try and figure it out as long as you test to determine if you can write to a TK50 tape in the first place. Jerome Fine
