On 04/21/2012 08:49 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
I made the same transition for the most part, but
kept my Zip disks around, and have recently started to collect some more. I'm planning
to use them on PDP-11s as removable boot media. -Dave
They work very well as a sneakernet transfer medium to an E11 system.
I copied a lot of RK05 disks about 8 years ago with a Xylogics QBus RK05
controller booting RT11 from ZIP, then exporting files to Unix using E11's
host file system driver.