If these are from a VAX, could they be microcode disks for a 11/780? There was a RX01
attached via a LSI-11 as console.
Or they could just be disks used for data exchange. They would be in another DEC OS file
format, rather than ODS2.
Jerry Weiss
jsw at
On May 4, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Terry Stewart via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi guys,
Just tying up some unfinished business. Right at the beginning of this
thread I said...
Guys in the building next door to me (a Science
lab) have found some 8
inch floppy disks.
They want to see what?s on them, or at least to
archive them.
They have no idea what machine these disks were used with, or the software
was
used to write the files.
They may be CP/M, or some other format entirely.
Now that I've got the 8 inch disk drive up and running and have some
experience with it, I thought I've give these disks a go.
It turns out these disks are from a VAX machine. Assuming the OS is VMS, I
scoured the Internet for something that might read them.
?...
Any comments most welcome.
Thanks!
Terry