Very nice to know! I am repairing my tu58 bit by bit and will try it out on my 11/150. Good to know about the serial limit, I'll jumper for 2400 baud to test.
Question. The only tape I have for testing is an xxdp. Are they in rt11 format that I can test with a simple directory command? Chris On May 17, 2022 11:31:55 PM GMT+02:00, Lee Gleason via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >On 4/15/2022 2:48 PM, Lee Gleason wrote: >> I've been tinkering with a PDT-11/150 lately. It's a little inconvenient >> to work on, since it doesn't have a simple way to transfer files back and >> forth (KRTMIN doesn't work when transferring files to the box, just from the >> box, for some reason I haven't been able to puzzle out, and pasting text >> into a KED screen or a PIP command usually overflows my terminal emulator). >> >> It occurred to me that the first application terminal line on the 150 is >> at 176500,300, the same as the default for a TU58's DL11. It's a very DL11 >> like interface, register wise. I'm wondering, if I could hook up a TU58 >> emulator and use it to move data back and forth to the 150. >> >> Has anyone had occasion to try this? Any advice on how to get it to go >> would be appreciated, since I know very little about RT11. >> >> -- >> Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR >> Control-G Consultants >> lee.glea...@comcast.net > > OK, replying to my own post here, on the off chance that there are any other >PDT-11 hobbyists out there. I gave this a try and it works pretty well. The DD >driver on the PDT-11/150 will talk to a TU58 emulator on Terminal 1 just fine >(presumably, it would talk to a real TU58 as well). It only works at 2400 >baud, but, it's still pretty useful for moving software on and off the box. >With the "big" TU58 patch to the DD driver, it's also possible to store lots >of RT11 software or data (65000 or so blocks worth) on a virtual TU58 and >load from there, rather than switching floppies. See >https://rsx11.blogspot.com/2022/05/pdt-11150-and-tu58.html for the long boring >story about figuring this out. > >== >Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR >Control-G Consultants >lee.glea...@comcast.net -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
