26 Jun
2014
26 Jun
'14
11:25 a.m.
I have many used but clean 1000 ( ~17mb?) & 2400 (40Mb) ft data tapes avail
for late 70's early 80's DEC drives. Some DEC branded, some Control Data.
I guess you'd use with a TU80 and probably more than just DEC. Pics posted
if there is interest.
Reasonable offer + ship from Landenberg, PA. Pickup welcome.
Contact me via vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm
1. which type
2. how many
3. your address
4. questions
$15 for one, $30 for 3, $60 for 8, $100 for 15; make offer along those
lines.
Bill
9:32 a.m.
On 6/27/14 7:48 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 6/26/14 11:25 AM, Bill Degnan wrote:
Bill posted pictures of them here
http://vintagecomputer.net/digital/PDP11-44/
Just to remind people, PDP-11 software is still actively being searched for.
A lot of RSX-11 software was lost within the past year due to the wildfires
in Colorado last summer, and there are huge holes in the historic software
archives for a system that should have been better preserved that it is turning
out to have been.
I have many used but clean 1000 ( ~17mb?) &
2400 (40Mb) ft data tapes avail
for late 70's early 80's DEC drives.
I assume these are all degaussed data tapes?
9:48 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
Just to remind people, PDP-11 software is still
actively being searched for.
Is there a list? I have a couple of boxes of RSX-11 distro tapes and
RL02 from the 1980s that have been stored indoors but I've made no
attempt to read because I figured there was nothing unique about them.
None of it is especially old (c. 1982-1988, IIRC), but I'm happy to
contribute to fill any gaps in the historical record. I am presently
set up to read 1600 bpi, but I don't have any gear set up to read 800
bpi (I have a couple of Kennedy 7"/DEC TS03 transports but they
haven't been spun up in decades, nor am I entirely sure where my TMB11
is.
-ethan
10:13 a.m.
On Jun 27, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org> wrote:
I?ll supply a few list entries:
DOS V4
DSM-11 (aka MUMPS-11)
paul
Just to remind people, PDP-11 software is still
actively being searched for.
Is there a list?
10:42 a.m.
On 6/27/14 10:13 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jun 27, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
of what's missing, or what exists?
It probably is time to do this as a real CHM sponsored project and do an public-facing
inventory of our holdings. I know Blechley has some things (Like CORAL66) that probably
aren't any where else.
From what happened with Tim Shoppa's tape images, it probably isn't safe to
assume
that anything that hasn't been verified is correctly archived. It is a good thing to
have images from multiple sources in any case.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Al Kossow
<aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
I?ll supply a few list entries:
DOS V4
DSM-11 (aka MUMPS-11)
Just to remind people, PDP-11 software is still
actively being searched for.
Is there a list?
10:54 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
Of what's known to be missing and actively being sought.
> Is there a
list?
of what's missing, or what exists? It probably is time to do this as a real CHM sponsored
project and do an
public-facing inventory of our holdings.
Sounds like a good idea.
From what happened with Tim Shoppa's tape images,
it probably isn't safe to
assume that anything that hasn't been verified is correctly archived. It is a good
thing to have images from multiple sources in any case.
Good point. I'll see about starting to gather my gear.
-ethan
11:21 a.m.
On Jun 27, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org> wrote:
I'd be happy with newer stuff; a lot of the software for 4.6, etc.
seems to be lost or corrupted (e.g. the FORTRAN and BASIC tapes on
Tim Shoppa's trailing-edge site are probably all there, but the
blocks are out of order presumably because someone ran the tape
dump with the wrong error recovery settings).
I'm always interested in RSX-11 stuff. I had the hardest time
figuring out where a working tape image of 4.6 was, for instance
(which is odd, considering that I think I finally found it on
trailing-edge anyway).
- Dave
Just to remind people, PDP-11 software is still
actively being searched for.
Is there a list? I have a couple of boxes of RSX-11 distro tapes and
RL02 from the 1980s that have been stored indoors but I've made no
attempt to read because I figured there was nothing unique about them.
None of it is especially old (c. 1982-1988, IIRC), but I'm happy to
contribute to fill any gaps in the historical record. I am presently
set up to read 1600 bpi, but I don't have any gear set up to read 800
bpi (I have a couple of Kennedy 7"/DEC TS03 transports but they
haven't been spun up in decades, nor am I entirely sure where my TMB11
is.
11:35 a.m.
On 6/27/14 11:21 AM, David Riley wrote:
I'm always interested in RSX-11 stuff. I had the
hardest time
figuring out where a working tape image of 4.6 was, for instance
(which is odd, considering that I think I finally found it on
trailing-edge anyway).
May be time to ping Dave Carroll again.
11:36 a.m.
On Jun 27, 2014, at 11:21 AM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 27, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I have *a lot* of RL01/2 and RK05 media some (10-15%) of which is DEC S/W
distribution media. I haven't had time to catalog much less image any
of it yet.
While 10-15% doesn't sound like a lot, when you have ~100 RL packs and
~250 RK packs it adds up. ;-)
TTFN - Guy
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Al Kossow
<aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
I'd be happy with newer stuff; a lot of the software for 4.6, etc.
seems to be lost or corrupted (e.g. the FORTRAN and BASIC tapes on
Tim Shoppa's trailing-edge site are probably all there, but the
blocks are out of order presumably because someone ran the tape
dump with the wrong error recovery settings).
I'm always interested in RSX-11 stuff. I had the hardest time
figuring out where a working tape image of 4.6 was, for instance
(which is odd, considering that I think I finally found it on
trailing-edge anyway). Just to remind people, PDP-11 software is still
actively being searched for.
Is there a list? I have a couple of boxes of RSX-11 distro tapes and
RL02 from the 1980s that have been stored indoors but I've made no
attempt to read because I figured there was nothing unique about them.
None of it is especially old (c. 1982-1988, IIRC), but I'm happy to
contribute to fill any gaps in the historical record. I am presently
set up to read 1600 bpi, but I don't have any gear set up to read 800
bpi (I have a couple of Kennedy 7"/DEC TS03 transports but they
haven't been spun up in decades, nor am I entirely sure where my TMB11
is.
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