a few vax 11/730 tu58 tape images

From: Michael Sokolov <msokolov_at_ivan.Harhan.ORG>
Date: Fri Apr 9 18:04:59 2004

Forgot to ask one more thing...

Brad Parker <brad_at_heeltoe.com> wrote:

> "BE-T173I-ME","TU58#34 11725/730 CONSOLE","1982,1984"
> "BE-T175I-DE","TU58#35 11725/730 DIAG SUPER","PROPERTY OF DEC","1982,1984"
> "BE-T176I-DE","TU58#36 11725/730 MICRODIAG","PROPERTY OF DEC","1982,1983"

Any idea on where do the "TU58#34" and 35 and 36 numbers came from? Are they
on the tape label? Does the label look original DEC or secondary? Do those
numbers (34/35/36) appear printed by DEC or by someone else? These numbers are
also written on the tapes themselves as each tape contains a zero-length marker
file named TU58xx.VI0, with xx being 34, 35 or 36. But it would be strange for
such numbers to come from DEC: I don't think DEC thought of their diags as being
"TU58 #suchandsuch", I think they thought of them as being 2-5-2 numbers (the
ones starting with BE- in this case).

> I think
> I have some 750 console tapes also, which I'll put up as soon as I read
> them.

I have a seemingly-pristine 750 console tape image on my FTP site. It came from
an Ultrix source tree IIRC. It would be nice to compare it with what you have.

MS
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