[HECnet] Can we hook this up to a VAX or something?

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The console RX02 on the 780 wasn't "visible" to VMS. You'd need. MC SYSGEN CONNECT CONSOLE to make that happen. I used a PDP-11/40 with RX02's but never actually seen such an interface on a VAX unibus. Very useful to transfer data between systems; this was before ethernet was common, let alone affordable. An alternative was the RL02. Which became the load device for the PDP-11/23 console in the 8600/8650. 
I can't remember whether the RK05 was supported by VMS?
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Onderwerp: RE: [HECnet] Can we hook this up to a VAX or something?
Verzonden: 23 augustus 2011 19:27

Correct, an RX02 floppy with a formatted capacity of 512 kB IIRC.

  Absolutely, on the 11/03 CFE.   And any of the UNIBUS VAXen (730, 750, 780,
etc) would directly support an RX01/02 on an RX211 interface.   Such
combinations were not unusual and were supported by VMS.   I've got a 11/730
with an RX02 drive in the garage.   Likewise any of the BI bus VAXen with a
UBA could at least in theory do the same, though by that time 8" floppies
were uncommon.

Bob





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