From: cube1@charter.net (Jay Jaeger)
Subject: [pups] Duh - how do you format an RX50?
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:23:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020210172249.02039468@cirithi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2320.64.169.63.74.1013297255.squirrel@ruckus.brouhaha.com>
Rats. So it would seem. Forgot about that angle. Useful program -- just
not for floppies.
Oh well.
(Hmm. I wonder how "bzzzzt"s taste when you have to eat them with your
hat?) I suspect that they kind of tingle, eh?
Jay
At 03:27 PM 2/9/2002 -0800, Eric Smith wrote:
> > Um, bzzzzt. Wrong. I have a floppy labeled: BL-FN7AP-MC CZFNAP0 M-11
> > FORMTR RX50 . This is a formatter program for a Micro PDP-11.
> >
> > It is a *diagnostic* program (not a user program) for formatting these
> > beasties. Mine is for the -11, I would imagine that there is one for
> > the MicroVAX as well.
>
>The "RX50" at the end of the title may just mean that the floppy is in
>RX50 format, not that the diagnostics contained therein can format RX50s.
>I'd almost be willing to bet money on that, since the Micro PDP-11
>originally used the RQDX1 to control the RX50, and a disassembly of
>the RQDX1 firmware shows no evidence of floppy formatting code.
---
Jay R. Jaeger The Computer Collection
cube1 at charter.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-10 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-08 5:13 Jonathan Engdahl
2002-02-08 13:31 ` Bill Gunshannon
[not found] ` <bill@cs.scranton.edu>
2002-02-08 23:42 ` Pete Turnbull
2002-02-09 14:37 ` Jay Jaeger
2002-02-09 17:14 ` Bill Gunshannon
[not found] ` <cube1@charter.net>
2002-02-09 18:18 ` Pete Turnbull
2002-02-09 18:46 ` Pete Turnbull
2002-02-11 0:25 ` Pete Turnbull
2002-02-09 23:27 ` Eric Smith
2002-02-10 23:23 ` Jay Jaeger [this message]
2002-02-09 18:40 ` Pete Turnbull
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