PDP-11/03 + VTserver?

[Sebastian Brückner]

Hi!

Since I had to leave my 8/L behind for the next couple months I got 
myself a smaller toy for the meantime. It's a PDP-11/03 with LSI-11/2 
CPU, 32k MOS memory and a DLV11-J serial interface card.
It also had an EPROM-board and an unknown interface card (40-pin 
connector) by a company called "sprecher + schuh" but I removed those 
till I figure out what exactly they do.
Some TU58 tapes came with the machine so I guess the EPROMs only contain 
some kind of bootloader and the main program came from the tape. I don't 
have the tape drive though.

I made some adapter cables for the DLV11 and can talk to the ODT and 
execute small programs. To try something bigger I guess I can use 
VTserver. I don't have any tape-images to use with VTserver though. I 
found hints on the net saying it is possible to create xxdp and RT-11 
tape images using simh or E11 or something like that.
I didn't manage to do that myself though. I can boot both systems on the 
emulator but E11 crashes whenever I try to access the emulated DECtape 
II and simh doesn't seem to support it at all...

Is there an idiot proof howto somewhere on the net that I missed?
Could someone maybe send me some images to try?
Is this the way to go at all or is there a better alternative to get 
software into the PDP?

thanks in advance,
Sebastian