[Simh] RSTS V9.6 install

Tim Shoppa shoppa at trailing-edge.com
Mon Mar 10 18:49:07 EDT 2008


Fausto Saporito <fausap at unina.it> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I downloaded the zip file, named rsts_v9_6_install.zip, from 
> ftp.trailing-edge.com
> Unzipped, I saw it's a tap file, so it should be a tape file. I tried 
> with a PDP 11/94 using TM0 device, but I'm not able to boot from tape.
>
> Is that a bootable tape? What's the right installation procedure?

Well, the extension may be .tap, but it's actually DECUS TPC, so
you have to run mtcvtv23 to turn it into a "real" .tap file.

Tim.



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