TK50 with SCSI

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Brad Parker wrote:
> silvercreekvalley wrote:
>> Sorry if this has been asked before...
>>
>> I have a few spare TK50 drives, and wondered if
>> these could be interfaced in some way to a regular
>> Linux box. 
> ...
>> My reason for interfacing is that I have a few
>> TK50's on PDP 11's and it would be useful to
>> be able to transfer software.
> 
> I have a scsi tk50 box; I've used it to make pdp-11 boot tapes by
> connecting it to a linux box.  It was bit clunky but seemed to work
> fine.  I used the stock "dd" and "mt" in a shell script.
> 
> As I recall this is pretty common (i.e. many others have done the
> same)

I prefer using a VAX myself, but it should work in Linux without too 
much trouble.

Peace...  Sridhar