On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: >> I have a number of ways to read RX50s, but nothing is presently set up... > > PCs can read RX50s if you have a 5.25 inch drive. DOS, or old enough > versions of Windows that you can issue BIOS calls work.
I have a DOS 486 I used to use for this. Its VLB I/O card toasted a while back and I haven't replaced it/rebuilt the box. One future plan for this box is to add an 8" drive to it. > On Linux, you can set the floppy parameters to 80 tracks, 10 sectors, single > sided, and then standard utilities > like dd will work. I'm mostly running from laptops these days (my primary two boxes are a MacBook Pro w/OS X, and a Dell Laptop w/Linux Mint). I have zero desktop boxes set up and running with any floppy drives. As I said, I have to dust something off. Right now, the shortest path is plugging in a MicroPDP-11 and using vtserver. -ethan _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
