[Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

[Håkan Svenson]

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Bryan Davies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I volunteer for a computer museum in Cambridge UK where we would much 
> like to extend our mini-computer exhibit.   We want to set up a VT100 
> running RSTS/E for our visitors to use. As the system needs to start 
> unattended I need it to boot up RSTS from power up.
>
> I have installed Simh on a Raspberry Pi B and connected the VT100 to 
> the serial port ttyAMA0.
>
> While I can login to the Pi on the VT100 and boot the emulator 
> manually, RSTS/E has a number of prompts within the boot dialogue 
> (Date, Time etc) which need to be answered before it is possible for a 
> User to login.  I have tried putting these responses in a Shell 
> script, and while that 'works' insofar as the boot process completes, 
> it doesn't return control to the terminal after the script ends.
>
> Can anyone advise how to do it?
>
>
>
>
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