Archiving 8" RT-11 floppies to CD-ROM?

[David Betz]

On Feb 24, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>> I have a friend who has a number (10-20) of 8" RT-11 floppies he  
>> wants
>> to archive to CD-ROM or some other modern media. Is there anyone in
>> the Boston area (he lives in Medway) who could help with this? I
>> believe these are RX01 media since I think they were created on a
>> PDT-11/150 that I gave away to someone a few years ago. Can anyone
>> here help? What would the fee be for such a service?
>
> I obviously cannot help, but it would be nice if, once it is done,
> describe the procedure for others.
>
> Backup is one thing, restoring the image another. A third thing would
> be to use that image on some simulator...

I think I would be satisfied just having raw images of the disks.  
There is software (even some I've written myself!) that can read those  
images.