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Article #260Re: Reading RT-11 format 5-1/4 inch disks in a PC/AT
From: j_prigot
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1990 14:47
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1990 14:47
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In article <350.2752352d@inland.com>, allebrandi@inland.com (Tom Allebrandi) writes: > We have a piece of purchased test equipment that contains a PDP-11/73 > running RT-11. The system uses 5-1/4" floppy disks for removable disk > storage. The floppies themselves are standard PC/AT style - that is, > Double Sided High Density. > [Stuff deleted] > We would like to take data from this machine up to our VAX. The problem > is that the only link this machine supports is a 1200 Baud no flow > control printer port. Even worse, the way you talk to that port is to > tell the software to use it and then print something! > [Stuff deleted] If the idea is to get the data to your VAX, then what is the possiblility of using VMS EXCHANGE with an RX50 disk drive? Or am I missing something? -- Jonathan M. Prigot j_prigot@wrglex or ...!drilex!wrglex!j_prigot
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