Re:

> Any tips?   I may try this tonight on my iMac.

I downloaded/unzipped the entire simh package (about 35 MB in 905 files).  
That created the directory simh-master.

Then, from Terminal:

   cd simh-master

   make -j 8

(that compiles up to 8 things at a time … omit the “-j 8” on smaller systems)

The compiles took about 57 seconds.

or, to compile just the HP 3000 emulator:

   make hp3000

That creates BIN/hp3000 in simh-master.

(By this time, I renamed “simh-master” to “simh” :)

cd to the whatever directory you put the 32002-11018_Rev-2548 zip and
mpe-vr-software-kit.zip files in.  Unzip them.
(I put them in simh/HP3000 … perhaps not the best choice.)

The latter file has mpe-auto.sim, which is the easiest method of
running MPE.

(assuming simh-master/BIN is in your path (or simh/BIN :))

   hp3000 mpe-auto.sim

That suns the emulator, boots into MPE, and you’re logged on as OPERATOR.SYS.

Note: the readme file mentions that the date is wrong, because that version
of MPE V is not Y2K compliant.

A control-E interrupts the emulated session and comes back to the emulator prompt.
At that point you can attach a tape image, if you wish.  If you then “CONTINUE”,
MPE will get an AVR for the tape!

BTW, initial testing seems to indicate that the E.01.00 version of MPE V doesn’t
like the CM STORE tapes created by MPE/iX 7.5.  (Assuming, of course, I didn’t
screw up my tape -> disk process :)

I modified my tapesd utility to have a “-simh” option.

Stan

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