5 May
2017
5 May
'17
8:13 a.m.
On 05/04/2017 07:01 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
From: Terry Stewart
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 2:41 PM
Not absolutely true! THe boot
system is a PDP-11, however the VAX can
have a Unibus or QBUS (depending on flavor) where a RX02 controller can
plug in.
The likely file system is FILES-11. But can be "othter", especially if
its a unix machine.
Allison
Just tying up some unfinished business. Right at
the beginning of this
thread I said...
Stop there.
8" floppies on a VAX are more likely to be an RT-11 file system for the front
end PDP-11/03 than anything else you can think of.
The rest is left as an exercise for the reader. 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.
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.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computers: Museum + Labs
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