[Simh] RSTS/E Reminiscing

[John H. Reinhardt]

Hi Brett!

   Yes, your RSTS.org was were I got the V6C version.  Is there a way to patch around the error? Or patch to fix it?  I haven't looked at your site recently so if the fix is there I have missed it.  The list of locations you mentioned are the ones that I've looked.  There were at various times some other places but they had the same things.

I know sources are scarce.  One can hope though. ;)


Edit:  I just looked and found the fixed SYSGEN.TAP  Thanks!

On 2/7/2018 11:35 AM, Brett Bump wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Paul Nankervis grabbed an image of the V6C tape I had been hording for
> almost 40 years and found a 1 block error that caused INIT.SYS to stop
> with an "INIT BUG".  You are probably running that copy of V6C as no
> other copy has been found (in 40 years).  Ashley Carder had (I think)
> V6A running on the original Wofford Witch, but that distro has never
> been retrieved.  We have been hunting for many years to fill the gaps
> and it seems the only ones missing are the V5 set, V6A, V6B and V7.1.
> 
> Pretty much everything else (distros) are online either at:
> 
>   RSTS.org, trailing-edge.com, pdp-11.org.ru, or Bitsavers.
> 
> Actual sources to the distro kits are pretty much non-existant.
> 
> Brett
> 
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> 
>> With all the recent discussion of BASIC games and such, I have been reminiscing about my first days introduced to RSTS/E and the PDP-11 at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's Camp Retupmoc in summer 1977.  At the time they were running V6B on their PDP-11/70.  I've searched for some time for various versions of RSTS/E and I've found a few distributions.
>>
>> I have a real PDP-11 chassis and cards which I am slowly working toward refurbishing.  But they are newer MicroPDP-11 types and would not run anything older than V8 or V9.  I've found a copy of V6C which is pretty close but I'm wondering if anyone has V6B on TAP format. Hopefully the SYSGEN tape or a running system that can be re-configured.  I would run it on a SIM-11 emulation.
>>
>> I know mention has been made of source listing/tapes.  I don't know the legality but if it's possible to get source for a V6 or even V7 I'd love to have it to look at to see how things were done.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> John H. Reinhardt
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