16 Apr
2016
16 Apr
'16
9:22 p.m.
I also picked up a VAX 8350 today (it was a productive afternoon). It
came with a box of maybe 40 RX50 floppies for console and various
diagnostics. A cursory Internet search didn't reveal whether these have
been archived already.
If they haven't already been archived somewhere, I'll take care of
archiving them later this week...
Thanks,
Josh
17 Apr
17 Apr
1:36 a.m.
Oh, that would be great to have. I have a 8354 (the last 4 is processor
count I think). Mine is in an unknown state.
I have some floppies, but not 40.
/P
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:22:26PM -0700, Josh Dersch wrote:
I also picked up a VAX 8350 today (it was a productive
afternoon). It came
with a box of maybe 40 RX50 floppies for console and various diagnostics. A
cursory Internet search didn't reveal whether these have been archived
already.
If they haven't already been archived somewhere, I'll take care of archiving
them later this week...
Thanks,
Josh
24 Apr
24 Apr
9:39 p.m.
I've archived all the unique floppies that came with my 8350 (there were
many duplicates), which came to 28 disks. I've put images up at:
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/VAX8200/
Images are provided in the raw SCP (SuperCard Pro) format and IMD
(ImageDisk) format. It's pretty trivial to convert these into whatever
format you desire (I suggest using the HxC floppy emulator tools here:
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html#download)
These should work on any of the 8200/8300-series VAXen. A text file
detailing the label of the disk is included in each archive. I have not
tested these disks yet (the 8350 is a future project), if you run into
any issues I can try redumping the problematic disks.
- Josh
On 4/17/16 1:36 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
Oh, that would be great to have. I have a 8354 (the
last 4 is processor
count I think). Mine is in an unknown state.
I have some floppies, but not 40.
/P
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:22:26PM -0700, Josh Dersch wrote:
> I also picked up a VAX 8350 today (it was a productive afternoon). It came
> with a box of maybe 40 RX50 floppies for console and various diagnostics. A
> cursory Internet search didn't reveal whether these have been archived
> already.
>
> If they haven't already been archived somewhere, I'll take care of archiving
> them later this week...
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
25 Apr
25 Apr
5:05 a.m.
Thank you!
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 09:39:09PM -0700, Josh Dersch wrote:
I've archived all the unique floppies that came
with my 8350 (there were
many duplicates), which came to 28 disks. I've put images up at:
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/VAX8200/
Images are provided in the raw SCP (SuperCard Pro) format and IMD
(ImageDisk) format. It's pretty trivial to convert these into whatever
format you desire (I suggest using the HxC floppy emulator tools here:
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html#download)
These should work on any of the 8200/8300-series VAXen. A text file
detailing the label of the disk is included in each archive. I have not
tested these disks yet (the 8350 is a future project), if you run into any
issues I can try redumping the problematic disks.
- Josh
On 4/17/16 1:36 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
Oh, that would be great to have. I have a 8354
(the last 4 is processor
count I think). Mine is in an unknown state.
I have some floppies, but not 40.
/P
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:22:26PM -0700, Josh Dersch wrote:
>I also picked up a VAX 8350 today (it was a productive afternoon). It came
>with a box of maybe 40 RX50 floppies for console and various diagnostics. A
>cursory Internet search didn't reveal whether these have been archived
>already.
>
>If they haven't already been archived somewhere, I'll take care of archiving
>them later this week...
>
>Thanks,
>Josh
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