[Simh] Hardware fidelity in the VAX family simulators

[Sean O'Banion]

STABACK for the 730 was 3 or 4 TU58s, with the command parse table on the last tape,
When I typed BACUP, it would spend about 5 minutes running the tape forward and rewinding until it concluded there was no such command…
After the TU80 was added, I could boot from the RL02 and backup the R80 to tape.

The Math Dept. instructor who was in charge but had never managed VMS (well, neither had I…) had me exactly once run a backup/image/log/verify to the LA120 console.


Sean

> On Jul 8, 2015, at 5:32 PM, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
> 
>> Even thinking of being absolutely dependent on a TU58 to even start the
>> machine is bad. Not to mention slow...
> 
>  Just don't turn it off :-)
> 
> Bob
> 
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