12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
10:02 p.m.
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:26:16 am cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Jay Wrote ..
If you have RK05/6 & RLxx & RXxx drives that
you completely trust as being
good working drives, load up vtserver and make images of the packs over a
serial port to your PC. Then you can put the images up online (or I can put
the images up on classiccmp.org under /PDP-11).
Yep I am not real trusting of the drives I have. I have two RL02's one RL01
and two RK05's coming. The RK05's are known working good. But .. until I
actually get a "scratch pack" I am not mounting anything in any of these
drives. The RL's I need to test with media I don't care about and also I need
to find a qbus or unibus controller in any case.
I have about 75 or so RL02's/RL01's and about 20 RK05's. Two of the RK05's
are
extremely precious to me. I used these in the early 80's with a 11/45 and
11/70 I had in a lab in California. The thing is that they stayed behind at
the place I use to work at while I moved on to work on other exciting things
like VAX's. Then about a year or so ago. I saw these RK05's on E-Pay. I WAS
absolutely Floored when I opened up the box and they were my packs looking
just like when I left them. What is the chance of that happening. ??? (Now I
have to find the 11/70 and 11/45 :-) ) So I want the data off these and I
want them back since well ... They are in a way a part of my first love :-)
Ok well as far as computers go that is :-)
I'd be happy to do the RL01, RL02, RX01, and RX02
media for you. My RK05
isn't working yet, don't have an RK06, and haven't tested my TU81+ yet.
Ok cool. Most the RL02's and RL01's are actual factory dec labeled software
packs. Let me get a list together. It will take a while to transcribe all of
them. I have about 15 RK05's coming in a week that contain DEC software also.
Soon after this I will have the drives and should be able to work the stuff
off them after finding a couple blank scratch packs.
Floppys I have GADS of as in huge huge amounts of software and archives. Most
of its from some long forgotten Xray spectroscopy program. (From a rescue not
anything I was working on nor have a clue about) But there is quite a few
with working RT11 and RSX11 and layered products on them. This may be easier
once I get that 11/73 going. I am close to having some working Shugart 8 inch
floppys. And I got about 5 or so RX50 drives floating around here.
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Kindest Regards,
Francesca Smith
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Baltimore, Maryland 21217