> On Jun 5, 2015, at 19:05 , Johnny Billquist wrote:
> See if you can spot the RT-11 file system in there.
Aha, is the console tape supposed to be in RT-11 format? That's something I can
look for. My home-grown RT-11 filesystem finagling utility barfed on my
"suspected good" raw image, but tha
On 2015-06-06 01:57, Mark J. Blair wrote:
I have a copy of an 11/730 console tape which I have been told is in EXCHANGE
format as created by the CONSCOPY utility. Can any of the VMS experts here help
this VMS noob learn how to translate that into a raw block-level image of the
corresponding TU
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> I have a copy of an 11/730 console tape which I have been told is in EXCHANGE
> format as created by the CONSCOPY utility. Can any of the VMS experts here
> help this VMS noob learn how to translate that into a raw block-level image
> of the corresponding TU58 tape, which I might be able to use
FWIW, I can confirm that the 730 console tapes are in RT11 format, as are
the 750's. DEC standardized on that format for console media, even though
there is no actual PDP-11 involved in the 725/730/750.
And EXCHANGE has the ability to create "virtual" media images on disk.
The CONSCOPY scrip
On 2015-06-06 04:08, Mark J. Blair wrote:
On Jun 5, 2015, at 19:05 , Johnny Billquist wrote:
See if you can spot the RT-11 file system in there.
Aha, is the console tape supposed to be in RT-11 format? That's something I can look for.
My home-grown RT-11 filesystem finagling utility barfed