On Apr 17, 12:15, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:35:56 -0400 (EDT) allisonp_at_world.std.com writes:
> > > Has anybody ever ripped the Low Level formatter
> > > from the XXDP+ diskpack and put the needed components
> > > onto a floppy (of some sort)?
[...]
> > It's doable. You need to create a bootable XXDP disk and copy the
> > required formatter to it. not much more than that required.
>
> I figured as much; I was just probing to see if anyone had already
> done it.
Yes, DEC did: ZY003P3 Field Service Tests disks for the microPDP-11 series,
contains 4 Field Service Test RX50's (CZXDnB0 where n = 1...4) and a CZUFB1
disk which has the monitor, menu, help text, UPD2 and assorted tests
including ZRQA?? and ZRQC??
I've also got a pair of rather later XXDP 2 disks from 11/53 systems, which
have XXDPXM, XXDPSM, DRSXM, DRSSM, DIR, assorted drivers, UPDAT, XTECO,
DXCL, SETUP, HELP. One disk also has ZRQA??..ZRQF?? and the other has
VDHA??..VDHE??, VMSA??, ZTKA?? and ZTKB??
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Mon Apr 17 2000 - 14:45:00 BST