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

[F.J. Kraan]

Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-02-24 13:14:06 -0500, David Betz <dbetz at xlisper.com> 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.
>   
Just recently I was able to read my MiniMINC (a PDT-150) floppies with 
an 8" drive connected to an AHA1542B (capable of single density) with 
Dave Dunfields ImageDisk. I didn't write them back yet (inverted write 
protect logic, but assume it will be no problem...

Fred Jan Kraan