On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:20 AM Antonio Carlini via cctalk
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> I imagine it was possible to hook up RX50s to a VAX-11/750 but I never
> saw one configured that way. Why not use tape :-)
We had an RUX50 on our 11/750 (I still have it). It's just another
MSCP controller, but since we had a U
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 9:02 AM Antonio Carlini via cctalk
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> I never installed it this way myself, but MicroVMS on the MicroVAX II
> was distributed on RX50 floppies: lost of them.
I have 2-3 install kits for MicroVMS on RX50. I'm working on imaging
them. First attempts were not successf
> On Feb 21, 2022, at 10:11 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On Feb 21, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box.
>>
>> It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
>>
>> Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk
> On 22 Feb 2022, at 15:20, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On 22/02/2022 14:19, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
>> That didn't stop me being massively nervy installing a VMS v5.0 upgrade from
>> RX50s to a customer's VAX 11/50... I think it was the first one that I'd
>> done so no
On 22/02/2022 14:19, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
That didn't stop me being massively nervy installing a VMS v5.0 upgrade from
RX50s to a customer's VAX 11/50... I think it was the first one that I'd done
so no pressure.
I remember doing the V5 upgrade on a VAX-11/750 but via tape. You sti
On 2/21/22 22:27, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
I think installing 30 floppy disks would be an exercise in insanity:
No arguments there.
That would probably wear down an RX50 drive to the nubbins.
Are RX50 drives less robust than what was us
> On 22 Feb 2022, at 14:01, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On 22/02/2022 03:27, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>> Are RX50 drives less robust than what was used to install Windoze 95?
>
>
> I never installed it this way myself, but MicroVMS on the MicroVAX II was
> distributed on RX
On 22/02/2022 03:27, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Are RX50 drives less robust than what was used to install Windoze 95?
I never installed it this way myself, but MicroVMS on the MicroVAX II
was distributed on RX50 floppies: lost of them.
Of course, that was then and the floppy drives were
On 2/21/22 21:14, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote:
On 2/21/2022 6:55 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 4:32 PM Rod Smallwood via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi
I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box.
It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 att
I notice you didn't say TK50 here :)
I have some TK50's as well. They really are not that bad, the key
problem with them is the bearings in the two capstans: They're old, oil
has dried out, and as a result they drag on the tapes. Plus one of them
has a tachometer wheel under it, and if it doe
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 8:34 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> > Are RX50 drives less robust than what was used to install Windoze 95?
>
> Well, they're 10 years older than your Windows 95 floppy so sort of. I
> still have some working RX50's here but they are a bit fickle. That's a
> big reason wh
Are RX50 drives less robust than what was used to install Windoze 95?
Well, they're 10 years older than your Windows 95 floppy so sort of. I
still have some working RX50's here but they are a bit fickle. That's a
big reason why I went to TK70's, more reliable.
Are any of my distro kits not o
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
I think installing 30 floppy disks would be an exercise in insanity:
No arguments there.
That
would probably wear down an RX50 drive to the nubbins.
Are RX50 drives less robust than what was used to install Windoze 95?
There is. What's in my floppy pile here:
Micro RSX11 4.0 9 floppies base
Micro RSTS 2.1 20 floppy disks
Ultrix 11 2.0 30 floppy disks
I think installing 30 floppy disks would be an exercise in insanity:
That would probably wear down an RX50 drive to the nubbins.
I also seem to
On Feb 21, 2022, at 4:32 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box.
>
> It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
>
> Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller with a digital RH18A 2Gig SCSI drive
> attached.
>
> Diag sees driv
On 22/02/2022 00:32, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote:
Hi
I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box.
It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller with a digital RH18A 2Gig SCSI
drive attached.
Diag sees drive as RA82.
It boots and runs
On 22/02/2022 00:55, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 4:32 PM Rod Smallwood via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi
I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box.
It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller wi
On 22/02/2022 02:35, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller with a digital RH18A 2Gig SCSI
drive attached.
Hm, that's an interesting setup. If it has two MCSP controllers then
one of them is at a
On Feb 21, 2022, at 19:32, Rod Smallwood via cctalk
wrote:
> So how do I install an operating system?
You can install 2.11BSD rather normally using VTserver. It makes your modern
computer into a pseudo tape protocol via your serial port to the pdp console.
It was written for this purpose and I
It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller with a digital RH18A 2Gig SCSI drive
attached.
Hm, that's an interesting setup. If it has two MCSP controllers then one
of them is at an alternate address. I never really worked out how to
On 2/21/2022 6:55 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 4:32 PM Rod Smallwood via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi
I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box.
It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller with
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 4:32 PM Rod Smallwood via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
>I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box.
>
>It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
>
> Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller with a digital RH18A 2Gig SCSI drive
> attached.
> On Feb 21, 2022, at 7:32 PM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box.
>
> It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached,
>
> Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller with a digital RH18A 2Gig SCSI drive
> attached.
>
> Diag see
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