Okay, here I go.
I have a PDP-11/83.  It boots a very limited version of RSX-11M.  (Sysgen
is gone, no multi users, etc.)  That's boring.  I also have a RSTS/E distrib
tape.  9-track tape.  I don't have a Q-bus magtape controller.
But, I do have an MT: emulating controller and drive attached to the PDP-11/34A.
It works.  I have read and written to the tape.  Reading is fine, writing
is iffy due to a braindamaged bootdisk (Not the new RT-11 set -an old one with
MT.SYS on it) that Caterpillar made.
The important part comes here.  I have a thing called a DW-11B (I think).
Anyway, it's a Unibus to Q-bus converter.  One end goes in the Unibus
box, and the other goes in the Q-bus box.  Putting the Q-bus end
in the 83, and the Unibus end in the 34, I'd be able to talk to the
MT: controller, right?  (I'd have to remove the 34A CPU, so it doesn't
screw with the bus, right?)
Does this sound OK, or am I missing something?
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