[Simh] Older Model VAX simulators, what can you do with them and how do they work?

[Ray Jewhurst]

Thank you Johnny. I will look for those documents. To be honest I knew that
the lines of hex were instructions of course but I honestly didn't know
what they were for. I only have tape experience on a then new HP/UX server
and that was over 20 years ago. I would like to thank all of for your
advice and I am definitely putting getting this to work on my short list.
Thank you
Ray

On Oct 9, 2016 7:35 PM, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> Uh... The bootstrap listed there is for the 11/780. It does not work for
> any other model (the 11/785 is just a faster 11/780).
>
> The MtXinu manuals (do anyone have them around) had the bootstraps for
> tape on all the old VAXen (11/780, 11/750, 11/730 and 8600).
>
>         Johnny
>
> On 2016-10-09 16:40, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have use the VAX 11/780-5 simulator for quite some time now and feel
>> pretty comfortable with them so I thought I would play around with the
>> other pre-MicroVAX simulators and have had no luck with them.  I tried
>> using the "recipes: from gunkies.org <http://gunkies.org> to set up some
>> configurations and nothing works.  (I know the 11/730 has some hardware
>> differences, so that one is the least of my concerns.)  Attempting to
>> install 3BSD onto the 11/750 gives me a "0000010 HALT" and with the 8600
>> I can get all the way to the initial boot and I get a kernel panic.  Now
>> I will admit I haven't tried different deposits and frankly I don't
>> understand very well how they work but I would really like to "try"
>> these machines. Also on a similar note I think that we should either
>> help to revive gunkies.org <http://gunkies.org> or find a new place to
>> share our system "recipes" and configurations.  For example, in the text
>> file that comes with DOS-11 there  are instructions that don't apply to
>> that version of DOS and I would love to share a revised version of said
>> instructions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ray
>>
>>
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