[Fwd: Re: 11/64 conversion]

[Julian Wolfe]

This is probably a PDP11/84 with the 8 misread as a 6.  Probably RA81s or
newer drives on it.  May also be in an HP rack or something, who knows. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 2:43 AM
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: 11/64 conversion]
> 
> joe heck <trash3 at splab.cas.neu.edu> wrote:
> 
>  > Folks, I asked similar questions directly and got the 
> following answers.
>  >  So, don't know if it is RT, RSX, or RSTS, or even a 
> flavor of Unix.
>  >
>  > Joe Heck
> 
> Hmm. Noone seem to ask the most obvious questions...
> 
> The original poster said it was a HP PDP 11/64.
> Now, HP never made any computers with a PDP moniker, Digital did.
> And Digital never made a PDP computer with the 11/64 designation.
> I would suggest that we start at that end. What machine is 
> this *really*?
> 
> As for questions about transferring the data... Is the 
> machine still functional or not? If it is, then it would 
> obviously be easiest to just type the file out (it's a text 
> file after all).
> Size of disks (someone asked). If we're talking MSCP disks, 
> the largest I know of is the RA73, which weights in at 2 GB. 
> (Unless you want to count SCSI drives...)
> 
> Copying to a Linux system? Sure you can do that, but I 
> wouldn't. VMS would probably be way better if it's actually 
> from some PDP system, since VMS can actually read some of the 
> file systems it might be in then.
> But this might be something not at all related to DEC 
> equipment after all...
> 
> 	Johnny
>