{"id":58,"date":"2014-05-11T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:48:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:48:43","slug":"a-better-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"A better boot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/06deb3285e7f43917474be0687d2ae7d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/06deb3285e7f43917474be0687d2ae7d-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"06deb3285e7f43917474be0687d2ae7d\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/06deb3285e7f43917474be0687d2ae7d-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/06deb3285e7f43917474be0687d2ae7d-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/06deb3285e7f43917474be0687d2ae7d.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the previous post I got the PDP-11 booting from a tape emulator into the diagnostic system, XXDP.<\/p>\n<p>Next I wanted to move on a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I was given some boxes of RX50 diskettes by a friend of mine. DEC kit can be very picky about floppies and generally wants them pre-formatted. The PDP-11 is no exception. It is possible to format them on a PC I believe but I don&#8217;t have a PC with a 5.25&#8243; floppy drive.<\/p>\n<p>I booted the PDP into XXDP and then used that to initialise a floppy diskette. this doesn&#8217;t format it, just writes some structure to it.<\/p>\n<p>I next used the COPY\/BOOT and COPY\/FILES commands to make the diskette bootable and have all of the files that are on the tape.<\/p>\n<p>I now have a bootable floppy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post I got the PDP-11 booting from a tape emulator into the diagnostic system, XXDP. Next I wanted to move on a bit. I was given some boxes of RX50 diskettes by a friend of mine. DEC kit can be very picky about floppies and generally wants them pre-formatted. The PDP-11 is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=58\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A better boot.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pdp-1153"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}