[Simh] VAX 8200

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at 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