[Simh] DEC Pro 350 Emulator

[Alan Frisbie]

On 06/04/2016 04:27 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2016-06-05 01:24, Al Kossow wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 6/4/16 3:57 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2016-06-04 23:50, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
>>>> Speaking of files for the Pro, most of what I've found are IMD format
>>>> which xhomer does not support. How difficult would it be to this
>>>> functionality?
>>>
>>> I don't know what the IMD format is.
>>
>> David Dunifield's Imagedisk
>> a source-available replacement for teledisk.
>
> Oh. So it's just a tool that can understand the teledisk format files.
>
> Anyway, unless people really want to recreate RX50 floppies, using a
 > 1.2M IBM PC floppy drive, those images aren't really that useful anymore.
 > For an emulator, you just want the contents of the files. If you want
 > RX50s, you're probably better off trying to find a real RX50 to write
 > the images.

I'm slightly confused now.   I want to recreate real RX50 floppies
so I can install DECnet in my real PRO-350.   Which format should I
be using?

Of course, I still need to get a real RX50 drive working again on
another system -- probably on my old MicroVAX-II with a RQDX3.

Thanks,
Alan Frisbie