loading images via serial port

[Brad Parker]

"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
>At 10:47 PM -0600 11/16/06, Jay West wrote:
>>Didn't someone on the list create a program to load disk images from 
>>a pc serial port to a pdp's hard disk? I know vtserver, but I 
>>thought someone on the list wrote something smaller....?
>
>I think what you're looking for is called vtserver.
>
>Here is one version.  http://home.alltel.net/engdahl/vtserver.htm

note: this works fine an 11/34 and Qbus cpu's but it won't work on an
11/44.

It could be hacked to work on a 11/44 using an alternate serial port
but I've never seen that.  The 11/44 console responds to control characters
(like ^P) rendering the protocol unworkable.

-brad