[Simh] Install VAX/VMS 4.4 on a simulated VAX-11/780

[Mike Stramba]

I have VMS4 on Win7 running from this page :

http://www.9track.net/simh/vax782/

I'm using the win32  executable Vax782 from that page.

I haven't tried compiling the 782 on a Linux box yet.

Mike

On 3/23/18, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure those three standalone backup tapes are TU58 images which aren't
> really "tapes" in the usual SIMH sense of the word. TU58 images are a
> little more like "disks" in the emulator world.
>
> You do not attach them to "TS". I think you attach them to "TD0" in a
> simulated 11/750 or maybe just maybe a 11/730. I do not know if they would
> work on a 11/780 or if 11/780 ever supported booting from TU58.
>
> I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with using a different
> version of standalone backup (later than VMS 4.4) to do the restore.
>
> If you wanted to be super historically correct on a 11/780 in the mid-80's
> you would could be using the RX01 standalone backup floppies.
>
> Tim N3QE
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Henk van de Kamer <simh at vandekamer.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to this list, so forgive me if I do things wrong...
>>
>> For an article about the history of prompts I want to make screendumps of
>> all systems I worked on. In 1986 (may be 1987) I learned Pascal on the
>> VAX-11/785 (I think) on the university.
>>
>> So two days ago I started a journey to install VAX/VMS 4.4 -- because
>> that
>> is the most probable version used -- on a VAX-11/780 using the Simh
>> emulator under Debian Stretch. That was the first problem because the man
>> page of the vax780 command said that ka655.bin was not included. I found
>> the ka655x.bin in the Simh git. Later I discovered that the man page is
>> probably wrong and I must use vmb.exe instead.
>>
>> After searching I found the bb-bt05c-be tape [1] which contains DEC
>> VAX/VMS V4.4 BIN 16MT9 (C)1986 [2]. After a lot of trial, problems and
>> searching I finally discovered that I need the Standalone Backup and a
>> procedure for v3.0 [3]. Another searched and I got three tapes [4]:
>>
>>     BE-CT97A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 1 OF 3
>>     BE-CT98A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 2 OF 3
>>     BE-CT99A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 3 OF 3
>>
>> I adapted the given ini to the following -- the complete ini with the
>> same
>> adaptions don't give any difference:
>>
>> load vmb.exe
>> set rp0 rp06
>> set rp1 rp06
>> attach rp0 stb40.rp6
>> set console log=logs/vms44.log
>>
>> Then the procedure:
>>
>> hvdkamer at obelix:~/vax$ vax780 vax780.ini
>>
>> VAX780 simulator V3.8-1
>> Overwrite last track? [N]
>> Logging to file "logs/vms44.log"
>> sim> boot rp1
>> Loading boot code from vmb.exe
>>
>> [ctrl-E]
>> Simulation stopped, PC: 00000E8D (BITL #1000,4(R7))
>> sim> attach ts bb-bt05c-be.tap
>> sim> cont
>> [Enter]
>>
>>
>> And there it hangs. I downloaded the v3.0 tape used in the example, but
>> that results in the same.
>>
>> The above looks the most promising of all examples I tried. Most used
>> options which didn't work or crashed the emulator. Can someone point me
>> in
>> the right direction to install the operating system. Thanks for any help.
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/magtapes/
>> [2] ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/
>> magtapes/labels.txt
>> [3] http://simh.trailing-edge.narkive.com/P8L1m0CF/problem-booti
>> ng-vms-1-5#post7
>> [4] http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11-software.html
>>
>> --
>>
>> Henk van de Kamer
>> http://www.vandekamer.com/
>> http://www.hetlab.tk/
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