<p dir="ltr">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. <br>
Thank you <br>
Ray </p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 9, 2016 7:35 PM, "Johnny Billquist" <<a href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se">bqt@softjar.se</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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).<br>
<br>
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).<br>
<br>
Johnny<br>
<br>
On 2016-10-09 16:40, Ray Jewhurst wrote:<br>
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Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
I have use the VAX 11/780-5 simulator for quite some time now and feel<br>
pretty comfortable with them so I thought I would play around with the<br>
other pre-MicroVAX simulators and have had no luck with them. I tried<br>
using the "recipes: from <a href="http://gunkies.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gunkies.org</a> <<a href="http://gunkies.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gunkies.org</a>> to set up some<br>
configurations and nothing works. (I know the 11/730 has some hardware<br>
differences, so that one is the least of my concerns.) Attempting to<br>
install 3BSD onto the 11/750 gives me a "0000010 HALT" and with the 8600<br>
I can get all the way to the initial boot and I get a kernel panic. Now<br>
I will admit I haven't tried different deposits and frankly I don't<br>
understand very well how they work but I would really like to "try"<br>
these machines. Also on a similar note I think that we should either<br>
help to revive <a href="http://gunkies.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gunkies.org</a> <<a href="http://gunkies.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gunkies.org</a>> or find a new place to<br>
share our system "recipes" and configurations. For example, in the text<br>
file that comes with DOS-11 there are instructions that don't apply to<br>
that version of DOS and I would love to share a revised version of said<br>
instructions.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Ray<br>
<br>
<br>
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