This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Richard: You say that memory can go anywhere on the Unibus. My question is HOW? The Unibus has 18 address lines. That means 256 Kb of memory max. The 11/24 supports 4 Mb of memory. Obviviously, they can't run 22 address lines on the 18 on the unibus. Which slots…
Bill: If you use DSC, then the backup is bootable. The problem is you have to a take down the system to do a backup with DSC. Chris Zach
Looking to sell scrap.
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Hi! This is a sad day indeed. Does anyone know of anybody who buys the gold fingers from DEC M series cards? I am looking to get some cash, and have 2 full pdp-8/I's full of little cards (as well as a RK8 controller, a pc11 paper-tape control, etc). How…
Bill: Speaking of licences, I have a question: If one sells a computer to a company like Midwest (which reformatts all of it's disks), or dumps the CPU , can one have the licence transferred to another CPU of like power? (AKA I dump my 11/45 for a 23+. Can…
Don: Hm. I have a RK07 sitting in my basement. Where do you live? As far as the cables, regular RL01/02 cables should work also. What OS are you running, and what kind of 11 do you have? Chris Zach
David: Ah times do change. For a long while, I was working off RL01's. (Then my life changed with a pair of RM02's…) Chris
Bill: It would probably be easier to use DSC. Unfortunately, you would have to take the system down for the copy operation (both disks have to be unmounted). The problem with copying, is that RSX maintains a boot file and STB entry for all of the files that start the…
Bill: The only thing I can think of is either DSC/BRU, or writing a little command file to look at the directories on the source drive, make the dirs on the target drive, and then do a copy src:[*,*]*.*;* dst:[*,*]*.*;*. This would not copy the checkpoint file, since that is…
Bruce: Do you happen to have RSX11/M running on a Lark drive? I have been trying to get a copy of RSX to run on my CDC lark drive (9457) with little success. Would it be possible for you to send me a genned RSX system (any version, my cpu…