28 Dec
2021
28 Dec
'21
9:02 p.m.
On Dec 26, 2021, at 2:10 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
That is very interesting. What image did you finally wind up using, actually?
This one: http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tapes/bb-d867e-bm_tops20_v41_2020_instl.tap…
The bad one is this one:
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp10/magtape/dec_distribs/TOPS-20/BB-D86…
I have downloaded images that also seemed to have
erroneous data; I believe I reached out to you about the gap in NCU/NCP that I
encountered.
I believe you will also need to load this tape, which has 2020 utilities:
DECNET-20_V2.1_2020_7-20-82. However, this that has the defective NCU/NCP source.
However, the extracted HTML appears to be fine, which is odd...
Now that I have the basic TOPS-20 V4.1, I'm trying to find out how to add DECnet.
There are several tapes out there that claim to be DECnet V2.0 or V2.1. But I have no
idea what to do with them.
The DECnet-20 V2 manual has an installation chapter (chapter 10) but it starts with having
the relevant files on disk, and offers no insight on how to get them from tape. I tried
each of the various tape images, some seem to be SIMH and some TPC format, but none of
them are anything that DUMPER understands. I thought that DUMPER is normally how one gets
installation files off tape. (DIR MTA0: doesn't show anything either.)
Any pointers? Manuals?
paul