Can disks be copied using only one RL02 drive?

[Paul Anderson]

I can give you a "1" key or another key if that would help.

Paul Anderson


On 5/3/07, charlesmorris at hughes.net <charlesmorris at hughes.net> wrote:
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> I've got a PDP-11/23+ with 4 Mb RAM, but only one RL02 and no software
> except an XXDP pack. Henk Gooijen helpfully made for me a (RT-11)
> bootable pack that is on the way (if the post offices between Europe
> and the US don't lose or destroy it). So I definitely want to make a
> backup copy.
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> Is this possible to do with only one drive? Apparently you can't swap
> disks back and forth like the old DOS or CP/M systems. Henk thinks
> creating a RAM disk would work, and copy files but I don't know
> anything about RT-11.
>
> The alternative is to take the RL02 from my PDP-8/A and connect it,
> but then I don't have a "1" key, they are both unit "0".
>
> Any thoughts?
> thanks
> Charles
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