20 Jan
2023
20 Jan
'23
1:34 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, rar(a)syssrc.com wrote:
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It had been written on a DEC PDP-11 minicomputer using
the RSX-11
Operating System. Although the museum has a PDP-11 in its collection,
it had not yet been restored and could not be started. Brendan Becker,
[...]
Brendan set up a ?Greaseweazle,? a device that reads
the magnetic flux
transitions on the floppy disk without regard to operating systems, disk
[...]
Isn't that a bit overcomplicated? I mean, they *are* standard IBM format
floppys that can be read with a normal PC floppy controller.
I really wonder why the museum did not know this. Maybe even PUTR could
have been used to copy off the files from the disks.
Christian