Yah. One problem with me is that I have the detail skills of a gopher.
So I'm not the best person to try and add proper metadata to files.
That said, they are a bit minimally descriptive due to DOS 8.3 naming
conventions. I'll take some pictures of the floppies and add a text
document explaining roughly what is what.
More important, can someone actually try doing installs on SIMH to see
if all the files are good? I want to make sure I didn't misname a disk
or make an error like that.
Thanks and more to come!
Chris
On 7/27/2023 2:54 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
Chris,
Den tors 27 juli 2023 kl 00:55 skrev Chris Zach via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org>:
Ok, files are up on https://www.crystel.com/pdp/os and
https://www.crystel.com/pro350
Would you mind adding some kind of metadata to the files, please! A simple
photo of the diskette with the same filename-base as the image would help a
lot to understand what you have actually dumped. The other solution is to
write something into the metadata of the IMD file. I checked the
ULTRIX1.IMD file and there was no metadata in it. One of the RSTS disks had
metadata which is great! I know from my own experience that writing the
metadata into the IMD program for each dumped disk so therefore a
photo/scan of each disk would equally good (or in some ways even better).
All in all it is hard to discern what version it is and which of all the
install disks this really is. When you already did such a great effort to
dump all these disks I would kindly ask you to just take a photo of each of
them so other people could use them easily.
Thanks,
Mattis Lind
MicroRSX, Ultrix11, MicroRSTS/E, and um spss
On 7/26/2023 1:51 PM, Mark Matlock via cctalk wrote:
Chris,
I would be interested in getting a copy of the SSPS/X software for
POS. I have a manual for SPSS/11 and would love to try to get the software
running under RSX11M+ if possible.
Thanks,
Mark
On Jul 26, 2023, at 12:00 PM, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
From: Chris Zach <c...@alembic.crystel.com <mailto:c...@alembic.crystel.com
Subject: [cctalk] Old Professional/350 software, any of this out there
Date: July 26, 2023 at 9:30:10 AM CDT
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Starting to go through my boxes of POS stuff. I know of course that 3.2
is out there (minus the Pro/Communications option which has a bad disk in
the distro) however are these disks out there now?
Pro/Venix 1.0 on floppies
POS V2.0a on floppies
POS version 1.5 (with test diskette, maintenance application, a thing
called Pro/Pre labelled "Diskette system", system overview and instruction
disks)
POS V1.7 (I have that here somewhere)
Pro/Basic Version 1.0 and 1.2
SPSS/X For Professional (this is a really interesting one, anyone heard
of this?)
If so let me know and I won't copy them. If not I'll go over to the
mighty Deskpro/XE and start sucking the data off for archives....
Thanks!
Chris
(Hoping to find old drivers or scaffolding or something that will give
me a hint into how DEC ported POS)
