14 Jan
2004
14 Jan
'04
2:29 p.m.
This may seem silly, but it occured to me this morning
(musing about how
to boot an old 11/34) that I could use a device which would pretend to
be an actual tape drive.
You can take a look at 'vtserver', though it seems to only be for Unix (I'm
not positive about this, as I've not looked into it much).
I hope to find an old RL01/2 drive around the Boston
area (anyone?) but
even when I do it seems bootstrapping will be an issue. Even if I grab
one of those Dilog controllers which talk SCSI I'll need some way to
load up the drives initially. It's just that those 9-track drives are
*really heavy* :-)
If you get RL02 drives, and a MicroVAX (Q-Bus) with an RLV12 controller to drive the
RL01/RL02 drives, there are a few tricks that you can pull to get an OS onto the packs.
Still, that might be a lot more hardware to collect.
Zane
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