24 Feb
2009
24 Feb
'09
12:12 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, David Betz wrote:
I have a friend who has a number (10-20) of 8"
RT-11 floppies he wants to
archive to CD-ROM or some other modern media. Is there anyone in the Boston
area (he lives in Medway) who could help with this? I believe these are RX01
media since I think they were created on a PDT-11/150 that I gave away to
someone a few years ago. Can anyone here help? What would the fee be for such
a service?
Personally I'd probably use one of the following:
MicroVAX III running VMS with a 8" drive capable of physically reading the
floppies
OR
PDP-11 running RSX-11M+ with a 8" drive capable of physically reading the
floppies
Sadly both such boxes of mine are in storage and my two sets of RX02 drives
are questionable. I've never even tried to power on my PDT-11/150.
Basically you do a MOUNT/FORIEGN on the floppies, and copy them to a disk
file. You can do something simular in RT-11, but I've not used it. The
same general principle works for Floppies, diskpacks, HD's and mag tapes.
Both for reading to, and writing out to.
Zane