Francesca wrote...
I been lurking here for a while and figure I come out
of my shell to say
hi and
say how much I love reading most all the posts here.
Glad to see you come out of
the lurk ;)
I have a bunch of old media. RK05's , RK06's,
RL02's, RL01's , 8 Inch
Floppies,
RX50 Floppies , 9 track tapes among other things.
...snip...
To get this stuff out there for all of you. What
should I do ?? Put up a
list
with my best guess of the contents and see if anyone will help me and all
of you
out by getting the bits off the platters/media for people for years and
years to
enjoy ??
If you have RK05/6 & RLxx & RXxx drives that you completely trust as being
good working drives, load up vtserver and make images of the packs over a
serial port to your PC. Then you can put the images up online (or I can put
the images up on
classiccmp.org under /PDP-11).
However, if your hard drives haven't been powered up in ages, you'd (and
we'd) probably be better served by you sending the disk packs to someone who
has a known well working recently used drives to load up vtserver and image
them. I'd hate to have the precious bits lost forever cause it got loaded
into a questionable drive that promptly headcrashed.
I'd be happy to do the RL01, RL02, RX01, and RX02 media for you. My RK05
isn't working yet, don't have an RK06, and haven't tested my TU81+ yet.
Just my own thoughts.
Jay West