16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
1:37 p.m.
Thanks again for all the ideas in recovering my TK50 tapes and getting
them to CD. Worked like a charm. Now I just have a few tapes that need
VMSTPC or the like, as they are bootable.
Now for part two. If I really want to get rid of my MicroVax 3100 and
run a simulator, can I really have a stable system with something like SIMH?
The needs are modest: All of my printers and terminals are off
Decnet/LAT, and I can put the two modems over there as well and take
them off the serial ports. I can probably also figure out a way to make
backups, probably by backing up the system disk image on the PC. I
think I would use XP. In reading the SIMH documents it seems like a
second ethernet card is necesary, but that seems reasonable. However,
can I run something older like VMS 5.5-2?
Could I just make images of my current drives and put them on the XP
hard drive as images? That would make it pretty simple.
Well as usual, any thoughts are welcome, as it seems like SIMH is the
way to go, but I just want to make sure I didn't miss something obvious.
Joe Heck
Zane H. Healy wrote:
For software distribution tapes, I'd recommend
VMSTPC, and make tape images.
For data, it becomes a bit more interesting, but I'd still recommend making
images with VMSTPC, and you'll most likely also want to take a look at the
lddriver suggestion and make your own CD's.
The question really becomes in what form do you want to access this data in
the future. If you make TPC images of the tapes, you can then either copy
them back to tapes at some point in the future, or use one of the SIMH tools
to turn it into a SIMH TAP file.
Zane