12 Mar
2017
12 Mar
'17
1:56 p.m.
Are dectape II tapes expensive?
TU58? They're hard to come by, but the good news is you can *emulate* them with a PC
and a serial port (or USB adapter). That's how I run XXDP on most of my systems, and
pretty much all of the systems I check out for people. You've got a DLV11-J in there
so you've already got SLU0 in place (or can strap it up for it). AK6DN has a bunch of
useful TU58 images premade, with listings of what XXDP utilities are on them.
It's also possible to boot other OSes on TU58, like RT-11. There's even a patched
RT-11 driver to fudge the capacity on TU58s so you can use the emulator(s) to store a much
larger volume of data. Helps to set SLU0 for a higher speed than 9600 if you plan on doing
that :)
Thanks,
Jonathan