Somone check my logic here... (Tim? Care to prove me wrong again?)

From: Daniel A. Seagraves <DSEAGRAV_at_toad.xkl.com>
Date: Sat Jan 17 11:00:44 1998

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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