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dd of vax boot tape

 
Willem Grooters
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‎01-02-2008 11:09 PM

‎01-02-2008 11:09 PM

Re: dd of vax boot tape

In addition to the last entry: Once you have created the diskcontainer, get it as-is (so FTP in binary format) to Windows or Linux, and burn it - as-is - to CD.

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Willem Grooters
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John B Pierce
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‎01-11-2008 05:23 AM

‎01-11-2008 05:23 AM

Re: dd of vax boot tape

The following program will read a tape into SIMH tap-format on linux.

http://inwap.com/pdp10/usenet/timage.c

You would need to be using unix (suggested by dd anyways) and be able to attach the magtape drive (hopefully SCSI) to the unix machine. The tap-formatted output file can then be booted by the simulator.
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