TU58 Emulator

Building an RT-11 tape for a TU58 emulator

Having successfully compiled up the TU58 emulator (see my earlier post) and booted it into XXDP on my PDP11/23+, the next step is to build up a RT11 tape.

After a read through of Will Kranz’s article I decided to opt for an oversized tape image (10MB) using Will’s modified TU58 (dd.sys) driver. The standard TU58 is only 256KB is size and this larger capacity should give plenty of space for applications.

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Posted under Storage Server, TU58 Emulator by Toby Russell on 12.7.2008 | No Comments

Compiling up a TU58 emulator under Linux

As part of my mission to build a general purpose storage server to allow diskless PDP’s to once again run real software, I have initially been concentrating on compiling up a TU58 emulator.

The TU58 is an ideal first device to emulate as its only requirement of the PDP-11 is a spare serial port which the vast majority of machines should be able to offer.

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Posted under Storage Server, TU58 Emulator by Toby Russell on 12.6.2008 | No Comments