Help me! Before I take the plunge

[Ethan Dicks]

On Apr 1, 2005 2:07 AM, Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com> wrote:
> The DECMATE I could still be a fun system to own - and if you can find DECMATE
> I system images, both PUTR and TELEDISK will make it easy for you to create
> entire copies of diskettes (TELEDISK), format (PUTR) and transfer files
> (PUTR).

TELEDISK and PUTR will not solve the problem that a PC can *not* write
RX02-format 8" disks.  They are a strange mixed-density beast that can
only be written by RX02-compatible drives.  RX01 disks _can_ be
written by a PC with the right FDC chip, but since the DECmate  I
shipped with RX02s, not RX01s, its disks are RX02-format.

Possibly one could build RX01 diskette images with the right contents
(with twice as many diskettes) and migrate things over that way, or
emulate the RX02 itself with a PC, but one can *not* just slurp and
burn RX02s directly from a PC.

-ethan