On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 5:43 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk
wrote:
> RX01's are, IIRC, just standard IBM 3740 format, yes?
>
Yes.
The RX02 double density format is the one that's incompatible with
everything else.
On 4/21/2020 9:34 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Or someone could lend you some floppies. I have an RX02 drive here I am
> putting back together, right now I have it switched to emulate an RX01
> with my RXV11 controller. I'll look through my floppies and see if I
> have some RX01 disks I can l
> Hi everybody
>
> I'm the proud owner of a PDP11/05 system with a couple of 8" floppy
drives. I believe they are likely to be RX01s.
>
> Does anybody on the list have some boot media that they could provide. I
understand that the controller can't format
> the disks so I'm in a frustrating
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:32 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Yes, that's assuming you have a PC with an FDC capable of
> writing/formatting FM floppies.
>
> --Chuck
Since nobody has mentioned it in this thread already Dave Dunfield's
TestFDC is good for finding out if the FDC in a PC is capa
Or someone could lend you some floppies. I have an RX02 drive here I am
putting back together, right now I have it switched to emulate an RX01
with my RXV11 controller. I'll look through my floppies and see if I
have some RX01 disks I can load up with RT11.
C
On 4/21/2020 10:15 AM, Chuck Guzi
On 4/21/20 5:02 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
> Using an older version OS and PDPGUI send a tape image into RAM through the
> serial port. Helps if you have a m9312 ROM board. You can make rx01 disks
> using dunfield's disk utility (right?) I believe but I never actually did
Yes, that's assu
Using an older version OS and PDPGUI send a tape image into RAM through the
serial port. Helps if you have a m9312 ROM board. You can make rx01 disks
using dunfield's disk utility (right?) I believe but I never actually did
this myself.
Bill
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 5:35 AM Doug Jackson via cctalk
Hi everybody
I'm the proud owner of a PDP11/05 system with a couple of 8" floppy
drives. I believe they are likely to be RX01s.
Does anybody on the list have some boot media that they could provide. I
understand that the controller can't format the disks so I'm in a
frustrating state where I do
