DECmate III and Rainbow 100+

[Lyle Bickley]

I use PUTR all the time to format RX50 diskettes, copy RT11 (etc.) files and 
create DOS backups of my RT11 diskettes.  I then copy the images to my NFS 
server, etc.

You gotta love PUTR ;-)

Lyle

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 10:24, vrs wrote:
> > ISTR there are ways to read an RT-11 RX50 on a standard PC, but at the
> > moment, I'm drawing a blank on it.  Catweasels are not required... it
> > _is_ an odd format (10 sectors/track, 80 tracks, slight different in
> > header bytes from "standard" usage), but it's all well within the
> > range of what a PC controller can do... it's all software at that
> > point, and I can't remember what is capable of doing it.  Probably
> > need DOS/FreeDOS to run it, as I'd be surprised if anything exists for
> > Winders.  Dunno about Linux, but as RX50s are somewhat old and out of
> > the mainstream, I'd be surprised if anyone bothered.
>
> I thought PUTR could read and write RT11 format??  If I am remembering
> things rightly, any standard PC with DOS and PUTR should be able to copy
> RT11 stuff, including the whole volume.
>
>     Vince

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