[Simh] Console floppy and VAX 780

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Mon Feb 15 02:25:05 EST 2016


I'm not sure I understand the question. Get what working?
Do you have a real 11/780? Because the simh VAX-11/780 do not use the 
floppies, as it don't actually emulate the PDP-11 that is used in the FE.

	Johnny

On 2016-02-15 08:02, Zachary Kline wrote:
> I’ve been reading about the VAX 780 tonight, and kind of curious what I could get to run with it. I have what seems to be a  tape of VMS 1.5 from Bitsavers, but it doesn’t seem straight-forward to boot.
> I’m wondering if anybody has managed to get this working.
> There’s supposedly a “Fload,” command, which is for loading files from a console floppy, but I can’t seem to find an image of one.
>
> I’m probably missing something, since I’m mostly used to the VAXServer which SIMH has emulated for far longer.
> I’d appreciate any info from the powers that be :)
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