TU-58s (was Re: Some progress with my PDP-11/73 system)

[Allison]

I still have a small 11/23 in a BDV11-VA shoebox with a pair of Tu58s, 
with 256k of ram it boots RT-11 in about a minute and longer (about 
10minutes) from there to copy it to VM: and reboot from there to save on 
running tape for small things.

If it took a luch time then the user never read teh chapter on using the 
TU58 and there is a note on how to optimize that.

Allison

Megan Gentry wrote:
> Jerome H. Fine wrote:
>>
>> At some time or other, I saw a VT103 with dual TU-58
>> drives in the bottom.  As noted, it took about the
>> lunch break to boot.
>
> At one point, I had a VT103 booting RT-11 from TU58 in about 30 
> seconds, through judicious placement of the files on the tape...
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
>
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