1 Apr
2015
1 Apr
'15
8:59 a.m.
Hey all,
Should be a bit less silent now I guess. ;)
Anyone here exceptionally familiar with the SC-40? I've completed imaging
the drive (just microcode and diags, someone want to finish reversing it
for use in klh10?) and doing the inspection (actually finished weeks ago
but got busy)
Now, I have a tape drive working and attached to it via SCSI...however now
I'm lacking info on how to actually do a tape bootstrap. ;)
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2 Apr
2 Apr
11:16 a.m.
From: Cory Smelosky
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 9:00 AM
Anyone here exceptionally familiar with the SC-40?
I've completed
imaging the drive (just microcode and diags, someone want to finish
reversing it for use in klh10?) and doing the inspection (actually
finished weeks ago but got busy)
Now, I have a tape drive working and attached to it
via SCSI...however
now I'm lacking info on how to actually do a tape bootstrap. ;)
Hey, Cory,
Reaching back to 1986/1987, as we got the Stanford TOPS-20 monitor[1]
running on our SC-30M, I think I remember that Mike and Stewart used
the KS-10 model rather than the KL-10 model. There was an 8080A (vel
sim.) in the box that provided initialization services, which ran
code out of <ROOT-DIRECTORY>BOOTSTRAP.BIN.
Try looking at the KS-10 Installation Guide for TOPS-20 (or the
Monitor Installation Guide for Tops-10) for inspiration. That's about
all I can tell you looking back 3 decades.
Rich
[1] ancestral to the Panda distribution for klh10
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
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Seattle, WA 98134
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
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3 Apr
3 Apr
12:13 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Rich Alderson
<RichA at livingcomputermuseum.org> wrote:
[1] ancestral to the Panda distribution for klh10
That reminds me, I'm discussing Panda with a couple of other people off-list.
When Mark passed away, I seem to recall there were some further
mods/developments to the Panda codebase that were substantially
complete but had not been released. I further recall it being said
that at least some of these mods had been tided up and finished, and a
refreshed Panda release prepared.
Can you or anyone else shed some light on that, or correct my
recollection if faulty? Does anything more recent than the June 2006
snapshot exist? Is it available anywhere?
Thanks
Mike
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Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame.
For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'
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