19 Jun
2005
19 Jun
'05
8:57 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I downloaded and ran the TU58 simulator on my PC, then
booted RT11 off
that. I then created a bootable RT11 system disk and used the floppy to
boot. Then I could mount blank images in the TU58 simulator and copy
files from the PDP11 to the PC. Then you can use the PUTR utility to
extract files from the images on the PC into standard PC files.
Jerome Fine replies:
If you have a 5 1/4" RX50 floppy drive on a real DEC PDP-11,
then it is probably much faster and easier to prepare
the floppy on the PC with PUTR in the first place. If
the floppy is 8" and SSSD (RX01), then I understand that
a PC can also have the same, but I don't know if PUTR
can also handle 8" SSSD floppy media on the PC. In any
case, I have no experience with 8" floppy media on a PC.
I am certainly NOT saying that a TU-58 is a bad solution,
only that other solutions are often better if they are
possible. If the only way to start is with a TU-58, then
it is certainly better than nothing.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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