TENEX coming back to life

Richard Cornwell and I have been working on getting TENEX running on his PDP-10 emulator. The first roadblock was finding a consistent set of files to assemble and link a working monitor, using TOPS-20 for bootstrapping. Several ones we tried had various problems, but finally we came across this one from the dual KI10 at SUMEX.

We still don’t have everything working in perfect order, but at least we can get to the mini-exec and have it load EXEC and run from DECtape.

syslod$g

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO CLOBBER THE DISC BY RE-INITIALIZING? Y
OK, YOU ASKED FOR IT.
TENEX RESTARTING, WAIT... NO CHECKDSK

TENEX IN OPERATION
NO EXEC
.INIT BIT TABLE.
READ BADSPOTS FROM FILE: tty: [Confirm]
^Z
.GET FILE DTA0:EXEC.SAV [Confirm]

.START.

 SUMEX-AIM Tenex 1.31.82, SUMEX-AIM EXEC 1.51
 ENTER DATE AND TIME AS MM/DD/YY HH:MM -- 04/20/77 08:00:00
 PLEASE RECONFIRM: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1977 08:00:00
@dir

   <SYSTEM>
 DIRECTORY.;1
 DSKBTTBL.;1
 INDEX. ;1
 JOBPMF.;100002,100001,100000;T

@enable
!quit
.HALT TENEX.
.
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If you are dying to test this for yourself, a rather raw and unsorted set of files can be found here. Caveat hacktor.

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