Re: Reading a PDP-11 RL02: Anyone Around the U.S. West Coast?

2018-03-13 Thread Paul Hardy via cctalk
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Paul Hardy wrote: > Greetings, > > I have an old PDP-11 RL02... > Thank you for the kind responses to my request for help reading an RL02. I am planning to meet someone who is within a day's drive of where I live. I feel safer hand-delivering the disk pack than m

Re: Reading a PDP-11 RL02: Anyone Around the U.S. West Coast?

2018-02-11 Thread John Wilson via cctalk
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 03:58:48PM -0500, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: >> From: Bill Degnan > >> What is the OS of the disks, what system was this disk used to >> create/save files to the RL02? > >Doesn't really matter, does it, as long as the bits can all be read off the >pack into a

Re: Reading a PDP-11 RL02: Anyone Around the U.S. West Coast?

2018-02-11 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 02/11/2018 03:58 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Bill Degnan > > > What is the OS of the disks, what system was this disk used to > > create/save files to the RL02? > > Doesn't really matter, does it, as long as the bits can all be read off the > pack into a file? >

Re: Reading a PDP-11 RL02: Anyone Around the U.S. West Coast?

2018-02-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bill Degnan > What is the OS of the disks, what system was this disk used to > create/save files to the RL02? Doesn't really matter, does it, as long as the bits can all be read off the pack into a file? Once it's in a file, the appropriate OS, running in a simulator (and mos

Re: Reading a PDP-11 RL02: Anyone Around the U.S. West Coast?

2018-02-11 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
What is the OS of the disks, what system was this disk used to create/save files to the RL02? Bill On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Paul Hardy via cctech wrote: > Greetings, > > I have an old PDP-11 RL02 that I would like to read, to preserve its data > for archival purposes. Ideally I would lik

Reading a PDP-11 RL02: Anyone Around the U.S. West Coast?

2018-02-11 Thread Paul Hardy via cctalk
Greetings, I have an old PDP-11 RL02 that I would like to read, to preserve its data for archival purposes. Ideally I would like to extract and store every block on the disk. I am in southern California but would be willing to drive a day or so to anyone who still has an RL02 disk drive on a PDP