TU58 dump tool on Linux?

Jon Elson elson at pico-systems.com
Wed Jun 10 16:33:25 CDT 2020


On 06/10/2020 02:06 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
> Is there anyone that has already built a tool to dump TU58-tapes on a Linux
> machine? I have the drive of course.
>
> There is PUTR. But it is DOS only and is written in assembler so it cannot
> be ported easily. The other option is running RT11 on a PDP-11, but then
> there is the hassle of getting the dumps off the RT11 file system.
>
>
>
Wait, isn't a TU58 actually connected by plain serial port?  
That should be fairly easy to write a
dump program for.

Jon


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