21 Apr
2008
21 Apr
'08
11:39 a.m.
Brad Parker wrote:
silvercreekvalley wrote:
I prefer using a VAX myself, but it should work in Linux without too
much trouble.
Peace... Sridhar
Sorry if this has been asked before...
I have a few spare TK50 drives, and wondered if
these could be interfaced in some way to a regular
Linux box.
...
My reason for interfacing is that I have a few
TK50's on PDP 11's and it would be useful to
be able to transfer software.
I have a scsi tk50 box; I've used it to make pdp-11 boot tapes by
connecting it to a linux box. It was bit clunky but seemed to work
fine. I used the stock "dd" and "mt" in a shell script.
As I recall this is pretty common (i.e. many others have done the
same)