I just received a number of TU-58 tapes. Most seem to have VAX software.
Is a list of the contents of such tapes available somewhere? I want to
save the
files before I use them for RT-11. I have seen such a collection of VAX
software
before and I presume that I am not the only person to save the files.
So if this
has already been done, it will not be necessary to repeat the exercise.
I attempted to look at bitsavers, but there does not seem to be anything
much
there in the way of software for the VAX. I assume that since there are
hobby
licenses for the VAX that all of the software is also available. By the
way,
the dates on the files are 1983 to 1985. Some of the contents are:
VAX/VMS 3.4
FORTRAN
C
PASCAL
Are these tapes useful? How are the files saved? Can the files be easily
saved using RT-11? What is the best media to save the files? Probably
the only reasonable method with RT-11 is to save all 512 blocks of the
TU-58 tape as an image so that a VAX/VMS system can easily ATTACH
the file as a TU-58 tape drive under SIMH.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine