Last year, I acquired an RK05 drive along with a number of
very old RK05 packs with RT-11 files. Since these distribution
are all older than V5.03, they are covered under the Mentec
license which allows usage under the SIMH emulator.
Last week, I was able to borrow an RKV11D Qbus controller
and copy most of the 17 packs (there were a few packs with bad
blocks) with the RT-11 files to a CD. Within a few months, it
should be possible to make these distributions available under
the emulator license, just as V5.03 and V4.00 or RT-11 are now.
In addition, while I still have the loan of the RKV11D, if there
are any users with RK05 media that wish to rescue the files, I
will be able to do so providing the media are still in readable
condition. If the RK05 media are in satisfactory condition and
I only need to read the files once for the COPY and a second
time for the verification (there are no bad blocks), then there
will only be a nominal charge for the destination CD or other
DEC media that I am able to use such as RL02 or TK50 or TK70.
If there are some "difficult" blocks that I am asked to try and
recover, then I will also charge for my time.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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Received on Sun Jun 16 2002 - 16:00:39 BST