Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can I read PDP-11 (RT-11) 5 1/4" floppies?
Message-ID: <709@mks.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 18:29:25 GMT
References: <62@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <62@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu>, manager@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Cris Fuhrman, Systems Manager) writes:
> Is there a program out there that will let me read 5.25" diskettes that 
> were written on a PDP-11 running RT-11?  It's the same low-level format as 
> a DEC Rainbow.

Aside from the program to interpret the RT-11 file system, you'll have
to have a computer with an 80-track drive.  The RX11 diskettes are
single-sided, 80 tracks, 10 sectors per track (at least they are on the
Rainbow). 

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