10 Jun
2020
10 Jun
'20
5:25 p.m.
On Jun 10, 2020, at 5:33 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 06/10/2020 02:06 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
Yes, it connects to a serial port. But on that serial port it speaks some sort of
protocol that implements a block access service. So what you actually have to do is
implement that protocol. I have never looked at it (never wanted to touch a TU58), but
it's been done, so there's probably code that can be used. With that, the next
step is to tie it to an implementation of the RT11 file system, which is a simple matter.
paul
Is there anyone that has already built a tool to
dump TU58-tapes on a Linux
machine? I have the drive of course.
There is PUTR. But it is DOS only and is written in assembler so it cannot
be ported easily. The other option is running RT11 on a PDP-11, but then
there is the hassle of getting the dumps off the RT11 file system.
Wait, isn't a TU58 actually connected by plain serial port? That should be
fairly easy to write a
dump program for.
Jon