Several comments on crashed drive in PDP-11/23

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On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> > Has anybody a convenient solution - or do I have to start from scratch
> > writing my own tools?
>
> If you're on a bare system, with only disk drives to play with, then your
> options are limited. The best might actually be to pretend you have a
> TU58, which speaks through a normal serial line, but is a block device,
> which most PDP11 can boot from.

I downloaded and ran the TU58 simulator on my PC, then booted RT11 off
that.  I then created a bootable RT11 system disk and used the floppy to
boot.  Then I could mount blank images in the TU58 simulator and copy
files from the PDP11 to the PC.  Then you can use the PUTR utility to
extract files from the images on the PC into standard PC files.

It all works very well and cleverly.

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