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Koning
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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 PDP11 interleave rules if you
need them.
I do have an 11/73 I might be able to press into service, although my first
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 "new"
diskettes, or possibly use in SIMH (if it ever gets DECmate emulation of
course).
Regards
Rob