tu58 carts for 730 on ebay

26 Mar 2004

Hi,

Someone's selling tu58 carts (a.k.a. "dectape II") for a 730 on ebay.

http://search.stores.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=DEC&srchdesc=y&am…

I snapped up the diag tape.  There doesn't appear to be a boot tape.
The other tapes I don't know about.

For example, what's a "vax 11 hardcore" tape?  (sounds like something
I'd want to *watch* :-)  Does that somehow turn on pdp-11 emulation?

And is the "microdiag" tape useful?

The cluster exercisor does not seem useful (I can't imagine a cluster of
730's :-)

If anyone else buys these, please let me know - I'd like to scan them
into disk files.

-brad