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 Sent from my iPad > 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