19 Oct
2006
19 Oct
'06
1:39 p.m.
I want to take the hundred or so TK50s I
have and restore them to the hard drive
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I would suggest leaving them as blocked tape images and save them
uncompressed.
If the tapes read without errors, you can deal with them in the future using
an emulator or using file extraction programs on whatever system you
eventually deal with them on.
Tapes with errors are more difficult.
19 Oct
19 Oct
8 p.m.
Thanks, everybody for your great ideas. Of course I should have
remembered some of them, but the grey matter gets leakier every day.
90 percent of the information is either already backup savesets or plain
data, so I'll take the suggestions about moving it appropriately. The
last ten percent are indeed bootable tapes or images I want to keep as
tape images, so the VMSTPC and SIMH stuff is the way to go. Yes, I'll
probably want to at least access them from an emulator or simulator on a
PC, and just perhaps use them again on a VAX, but for now, I just want
to store them in a way I can recover them. The idea about using
LDDRIVER (I have VDDRIVER) is also excellent.
Joe Heck
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