[Simh] Getting started with RSTS - unknown password (fwd)

[Brett Bump]

Sorry Paul, Comcast keeps bouncing email back from the dynamic IP Rsts.org
is sitting on.

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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:28:31 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brett Bump <bbump at rsts.org>
To: Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Simh] Getting started with RSTS - unknown password



On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Paul Koning wrote:

> Nice!  I looked on rsts.org but didn't see an obvious link from the home 
> page.
> 
> How far back do your RSTS kits go?  I've built V4A from a kit I have, and I 
> found, somewhere, bootable images for V3A and V3C.  Or at least V3C, I don't 
> remember if the V3A actually worked.  Getting those started is tricky because 
> the procedure is different even  from V4, and I haven't seen any manuals 
> anywhere.  I finally puzzled it out from a pre V1 listing I have lying 
> around.
> 
> BTW, pre V9 passwords are 6 characters max, extra are ignored, so "demodemo" 
> is actual "demode".  They are also case insensitive, ASCII letters/digits 
> only.  Hashed passwords in V9 and up are 13 characters, any 8-bit code.
>
> 	paul
> 
> 
>

I built a V6C kit after Paul Nankervis fixed the INIT.SYS missing block.
A V7.0 kit, a V7.2 kit, a V8.0 kit and a V9.3 kit.

http://www.rsts.org/autoindex.php?dir=distros/RSTS_kits/

I need to build all the V9 kits and put them up but lots of work/family
drama here the last year has put me out of work and now without parents.
The kits all have your FORTH rts plus my 2 Custom rts for convenience.

Original tapes are here:

http://www.rsts.org/autoindex.php?dir=distros/RSTS_tapes/

Everything from V4A to V10.1 with the following missing:

Pre V4
V5*
V6A
V6B
V7.1

I tried to build all the kits and accounts to be the same, and since V9+
needed a longer password, I made the demo account: demodemo figuring most
would not realize pre V9 passwords were RAD50 6 character max.

Brett