Installing an operating system on an 11/83

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 8:34 PM Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> > Are RX50 drives less robust than what was used to install Windoze 95?
>
> Well, they're 10 years older than your Windows 95 floppy so sort of. I
> still have some working RX50's here but they are a bit fickle. That's a
> big reason why I went to TK70's, more reliable.
>

I notice you didn't say TK50 here :)

I recently read 400 odd RX50s from my old DEC Rainbow collection recently.
All but 3 read perfectly.

Are any of my distro kits not online? I can probably read them with a
> Deskpro XE/4100 with a 1.2mb floppy drive if they need to be scanned.
>

I have a kyroflux I used to image a bunch of Rainbow Venix disks... love
it, but I've had it a long time...

Warner

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