4 May
2017
4 May
'17
11:01 p.m.
From: Terry Stewart
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 2:41 PM
Just tying up some unfinished business. Right at the
beginning of this
thread I said...
> 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.
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.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computers: Museum + Labs
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
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