PDP-11

Bootstrapping OS Installation Images

From https://github.com/chapmajs/vtserver:

The Vtserver program provides you with a method of copying a disk image into a PDP-11, or extracting a disk image from a PDP-11, without a tape drive or indeed an installed operating system.

The two computers are connected via an RS-232 null modem with hardware handshaking. A KL/DL-11 unit on the PDP-11 is used as the serial port: the highest transfer rate is 9,600 bps. The main limitation at present is that the PDP-11 must have at least 192 Kbytes of memory.


Resources and References

FilenameFilesizeLast modified
vtserver-master.zip335.6 KiB2022-02-23 07:10

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