On Jun 10, 2020, at 3:06 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 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. > You could try my “fsio” utility from the SIMH simtools repository: <https://github.com/simh/simtools/converters/fsio> I originally wrote it to read/write SIMH disk images in various formats (including RT11). I’ve never tried it with a tape drive but if it looks like a block device it should work. John. > > It is probably not too difficult to use relevant parts of the various TU58 > Unix implementations out there to do something quickly, but if someone has > already done it, it would be great to not reinvent the wheel. > > I have approximately 80 11/730 and 11/750 console and diag tapes that > need reading. > > /Mattis