On 05/04/2017 07:01 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: > From: Terry Stewart > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 2:41 PM > >> Just tying up some unfinished business. Right at the beginning of this >> thread I said... >>> Guys in the building next door to me (a Science lab) have found some 8 inch >>> floppy disks. They want to see what’s on them, or at least to archive them. >>> They have no idea what machine these disks were used with, or the software >>> was used to write the files. They may be CP/M, or some other format >>> entirely. >> It turns out these disks are from a VAX machine. Assuming the OS is VMS, I >> scoured the Internet for something that might read them. > Stop there. > > 8" floppies on a VAX are more likely to be an RT-11 file system for the front > end PDP-11/03 than anything else you can think of. > > The rest is left as an exercise for the reader. Not absolutely true! THe boot system is a PDP-11, however the VAX can have a Unibus or QBUS (depending on flavor) where a RX02 controller can plug in.
The likely file system is FILES-11. But can be "othter", especially if its a unix machine. Allison > Rich > > > Rich Alderson > Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer > Living Computers: Museum + Labs > 2245 1st Avenue S > Seattle, WA 98134 > > mailto:ri...@livingcomputers.org > > http://www.LivingComputers.org/
