Start on the simulator first you can make a lot of turns quickly and know what 
to expect when you work on the real hardware.

Kirk

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> On Oct 18, 2024, at 4:00 PM, Peter Ekstrom via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello to the group,
> 
> I have acquired some boards and a backplane for a PDP 11/23+. The disk
> controller is an RQDX3 and I have a 3.5" drive that works as an RX50. I
> have a greazeweasle so I am able to write RX50 images to 3.5 inch
> floppies.  I also have an RD32 MFM drive that also works.
> 
> Since I have an M8189 CPU board, I have a second serial port that works as
> a TU58 device so I can use the tu58em emulator. I also have 512K of memory
> and a DZV11. Using the TU58 emulator I have been able to get RT-11 up and
> running on it.
> 
> My goal though is to try and get RSX11M (I have no FPP right now) on it,
> but I am somewhat at a loss on how to get it installed. Anyone have any
> suggestions on how I could do that? I have some .tap files and some RL02
> images with various versions of RSX11M, but I don't know how to get them
> onto my RD32 drive.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointers or suggestions.
> 
> And let me just say I love finally having a real PDP11!!
> 
> -Peter

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