DECmate II Questions

-----Original Message----- From: Robert Jarratt [mailto:robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com] Sent: 02 April 2016 19:50 To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: RE: DECmate II Questions > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul > Koning > Sent: 02 April 2016 18:49 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: DECmate II Questions > > > > On Apr 2, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Robert Jarratt > > <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> > wrote: > > > > I have been looking at my DECmate II recently. I got an Italian > > version of WPS 1.0 for it and that works fine, except that I don't > > have an Italian keyboard so finding some of the characters is a bit > > tricky. :) ... > > Any recommendations for how best to image RX50 diskettes? I want to > > preserve the diskettes I have. > > Are they the same format (80 tracks, 10 sectors, 512 bytes) as the > RX50 on PDP11s? If yes, you can either use a PDP11, or you can > configure Linux to 10 sector per track format and use dd. If the > sector ordering is as strange as on the PDP11, dd will get the data > very much out of order, but it should all be there. I can find the

interleave rules if you need them. I do have an 11/73 I might be able to press into service, although my

thought was a MicroVAX II with VMS and using backup/image. Not sure if that would work though? Ideally an image that I can then write back to

diskettes, or possibly use in SIMH (if it ever gets DECmate emulation of course).