>This may seem silly, but it occured to me this morning (musing about how
>to boot an old 11/34) that I could use a device which would pretend to
>be an actual tape drive.
You can take a look at 'vtserver', though it seems to only be for Unix (I'm not positive about this, as I've not looked into it much).
>I hope to find an old RL01/2 drive around the Boston area (anyone?) but
>even when I do it seems bootstrapping will be an issue. Even if I grab
>one of those Dilog controllers which talk SCSI I'll need some way to
>load up the drives initially. It's just that those 9-track drives are
>*really heavy* :-)
If you get RL02 drives, and a MicroVAX (Q-Bus) with an RLV12 controller to drive the RL01/RL02 drives, there are a few tricks that you can pull to get an OS onto the packs. Still, that might be a lot more hardware to collect.
Zane
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