DECtape archeology.

I saw Pauls post about old DECtapes which reminded me about a bunch of DECtapes I had lying here. On my workbench I have a PDP-11/10 with TC11 and TU56 setup which works nicely so I decided to image a few more DECtapes. For those interested in old diagnostics and other things it can be worth looking into. http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/dectapes-1.tgz Some comments: I have not tried to boot any tape natively since my M9312 need a TC boot PROM, need to burn one. I have tried to boot most of them in SimH, but many of them fail with a HALT somewhere. Need to test this further on real hardware as soon as I have a TC bootstrap. D1.DSK had an I/O Error so it is not the full dump. D2.DSK however boots to a prompt: DDP1-V001 28K RSTRT: 155766 .DIR . DIR .BIN 003 17-NOV-71 DTCOPY .BIN 006 17-NOV-71 D0AA .BIN 014 17-NOV-71 What is DDP1-V001? Some early diagnostics monitor? The filesystem seems to be DOS-11 as RT-11 FILEX is able to read the directory with /S D5.DSK is also a DOS-11 file structure and apart from quite some diagnostics also contain FOCAL1.BIN DT5.DSK contain a binary MOON.BIN which according to the label is some variant of Moonlander / Lunarlander. So, yes. I do have a system up and running that can Image that RSX11-D VT30 tape if needed. However it will be moved on the 27th of January. /Mattis