13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
1:02 a.m.
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:26:16 am cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Jay Wrote ..
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).
Yep I am not real trusting of the drives I have. I have two RL02's one RL01
and two RK05's coming. The RK05's are known working good. But .. until I
actually get a "scratch pack" I am not mounting anything in any of these
drives. The RL's I need to test with media I don't care about and also I need
to find a qbus or unibus controller in any case.
I have about 75 or so RL02's/RL01's and about 20 RK05's. Two of the RK05's
are
extremely precious to me. I used these in the early 80's with a 11/45 and
11/70 I had in a lab in California. The thing is that they stayed behind at
the place I use to work at while I moved on to work on other exciting things
like VAX's. Then about a year or so ago. I saw these RK05's on E-Pay. I WAS
absolutely Floored when I opened up the box and they were my packs looking
just like when I left them. What is the chance of that happening. ??? (Now I
have to find the 11/70 and 11/45 :-) ) So I want the data off these and I
want them back since well ... They are in a way a part of my first love :-)
Ok well as far as computers go that is :-)
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.
Ok cool. Most the RL02's and RL01's are actual factory dec labeled software
packs. Let me get a list together. It will take a while to transcribe all of
them. I have about 15 RK05's coming in a week that contain DEC software also.
Soon after this I will have the drives and should be able to work the stuff
off them after finding a couple blank scratch packs.
Floppys I have GADS of as in huge huge amounts of software and archives. Most
of its from some long forgotten Xray spectroscopy program. (From a rescue not
anything I was working on nor have a clue about) But there is quite a few
with working RT11 and RSX11 and layered products on them. This may be easier
once I get that 11/73 going. I am close to having some working Shugart 8 inch
floppys. And I got about 5 or so RX50 drives floating around here.
--
Kindest Regards,
Francesca Smith
"No Problems Only Solutions"
Lady Linux Internet Services
Baltimore, Maryland 21217
13 Mar
13 Mar
8:37 a.m.
New subject: Introduction And Questions About Media Preservation "Mostly DecStuff
At 11:02 PM 3/12/2007, Francesca Smith wrote:
I have about 75 or so RL02's/RL01's and about
20 RK05's. Two of the RK05's are
extremely precious to me. I used these in the early 80's with a 11/45 and
11/70 I had in a lab in California. The thing is that they stayed behind at
the place I use to work at while I moved on to work on other exciting things
like VAX's. Then about a year or so ago. I saw these RK05's on E-Pay. I WAS
absolutely Floored when I opened up the box and they were my packs looking
just like when I left them. What is the chance of that happening. ???
Lightning strikes. Chance favors the prepared mind. Or at least the
obsessive mind with time on its hands. I have a stack of nine-tracks
I bought at the university surplus that must've stayed in limbo from
a department I once worked at - at least fifteen years before.
I looked at the stack on the shelf at the sale and said to myself,
why, those look just like the ones we used to use... and I reached
for them, and they were. A few bucks and they were mine.
Soon after, a list member helped me read them. They were a set
of RSTS backups from when I was working there.
- John
11:02 a.m.
New subject: Introduction And Questions About Media Preservation "MostlyDecStuff
From: Francesca Smith <fsmith at ladylinux.com>
Floppys I have GADS of as in huge huge amounts of software and archives.
Most
of its from some long forgotten Xray spectroscopy program. (From a rescue
not
anything I was working on nor have a clue about) But there is quite a few
with working RT11 and RSX11 and layered products on them. This may be
easier
once I get that 11/73 going. I am close to having some working Shugart 8
inch
floppys. And I got about 5 or so RX50 drives floating around here.
Hi
Are you looking for single sided or double sided? If single sided,
the SA800's that were on ebay should work fine. If double sided,
you'll need that SA851. These have two heads.
If your connector is a 50 pin, you need a the SA800 and SA851's.
The SA900's have a 44 pin edge connector but are otherwise
similar to the 800's.
Dwight
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