Robin boot disks was: DEC at MIT

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Mon Jun 28 09:14:07 2004

>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Murphy <rick_at_rickmurphy.net> writes:

 Rick> At 08:05 PM 6/24/2004, Mike Kenzie wrote:
>> Does anyone have boot disk images for the VT180?

 Rick> I have an original DEC disk - VT180 CP/M 2.2. No idea if it's
 Rick> still usable, but it's unlikely that I overwrote/reformatted
 Rick> it.

 Rick> The floppy isn't readable on a peecee floppy drive. If you're
 Rick> interested, I can drop it into the mail to you.

Assuming Robins use the DEC standard 5.25 inch floppy formatting
(i.e., the same as for the RX50) you CAN read it on a PC with a bit of
work. I did that in my program "rstsflx" which is available on some
ftp servers (or I can provide the relevant code fragment if anyone is
interested). Both Linux and DOS can do this. I don't know about
WinNT and its descendants, though -- probably not.

      paul
Received on Mon Jun 28 2004 - 09:14:07 BST