On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, r...@syssrc.com wrote: [... blob of text ...]
It had been written on a DEC PDP-11 minicomputer using the RSX-11 Operating System. Although the museum has a PDP-11 in its collection, it had not yet been restored and could not be started. Brendan Becker,
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Brendan set up a ?Greaseweazle,? a device that reads the magnetic flux transitions on the floppy disk without regard to operating systems, disk
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Isn't that a bit overcomplicated? I mean, they *are* standard IBM format floppys that can be read with a normal PC floppy controller. I really wonder why the museum did not know this. Maybe even PUTR could have been used to copy off the files from the disks.
Christian
