[HECnet] tape recovery: BP2 and

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-05-01 23:49, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>    I'm gonna try.  Of course this assumes they they weren't written from
> the corrupt images on trailing-edge.com!  We will know soon enough.
>
>    My most reliable 9-track drive is on an RSX system.  What's the best
> way to make a raw tape image under RSX, anybody know?

If you have a recent version of RSX, then I'd use VCP and copy to a 
virtual tape.

The TPC program from DECUS is also usable, although make sure to use the 
right switches to do "nibble" copying, as otherwise you risk the same 
thing Tim Shoppa got...

	Johnny

>
>                 -Dave
>
> On 05/01/2015 05:41 PM, Mark Matlock wrote:
>> Dave,
>>     That is fantastic news! It would be great if you can read them ok.
>> Thanks!
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On May 1, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>   I have located 9-track install tapes of BP2 v2.7 and PDP-11 C v1.2 in
>>> my tape library.  They are not original tapes; the labels are
>>> hand-written (not by me) so I don't know their status.  I will attempt
>>> to recover them in the coming days.
>>>
>>>              -Dave
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>>> New Kensington, PA
>>
>
>


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