Have VAX 82x0/83x0 console floppies been archived?

Josh Dersch derschjo at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 23:39:09 CDT 2016


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 cursory Internet search didn't reveal whether these have been archived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 If they haven't already been archived somewhere, I'll take care of archiving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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