Hi all,
I'm sorry to put noise on the list, but I'm sure someone on this list 
knows the answer.  :-)  Please respond to me privately so we can keep the 
S/N ratio high...  

Anyway, I've got a PDP-11 that our physics departement still uses (!) for 
controlling some piece of equipment.  At any rate, they're phasing out 
the PDP-11 to replace it with a PC.  But, they have data they need to 
take from the PDP-11 to the PC.  PDP-11 floppy disks are the mode of 
transport.  :-(
Now, I'm not the one directly involved in this project.  But the fellow 
who is tells me they've got a PC-style half-height floppy in this 
PDP-11.  (I guess, to be technical, it's a MicroPDP-11; it's in a BA23 
case).  So what are my chances of reading these floppies on the PC?  I 
really don't know what format the floppies are in.  It seems to be 
running an OS called RSX11M?

Can someone offer me a way to read these floppies?  If the RX50 was 
supported in NetBSD, I might be able to read the disks on my 
MicroVAX-II?  But it looks like a PC that can read the disks long enough 
to get these files off is the way to go.

I played with 'putr.com' a little bit, but either it isn't enough, or I 
really mucked up the parameters.  :-)

thanks for ANY help,
Jonathan

Jonathan Sturges
Unix Systems Engineer
Old Dominion University - OCCS
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Norfolk, VA  23529-0227
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