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Software Archiving

One of my main fears with my collection is loosing software over time as disks slowly decay. DEC media has proven amazingly resilient with many of my disks well over 30 years old. The reality is though that they won’t last forever and so I’ve decided now is the time to start a program of archiving them all to modern media.

I have the following to work my way through:

  • 40 RL02 packs
  • 24 RL01 packs
  • ~250 RX01 and RX02 floppies
  • ~100 RX50s
  • 24 TU56 tapes
  • ~100 TU58 tapes
  • 28 RK05 packs

Software wise, these will yield a mixture of XXDP, RT-11, RSX-11/M, RSX-11/M PLUS, and Unix software. As I complete them I will put any useful finds online to download for others to use.

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Posted under Software by Toby Russell on 05.17.2009 | No Comments

Building reliable modern storage

For many years I’ve been pondering the problem of how to provide a reliable long term storage solution for my PDP-11 and PDP-8 machines. Whilst I have plenty of period drives which are still operational it is apparent that in the long term it is unlikely to be possible to keep them all running.

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Posted under Storage Server by Toby Russell on 11.17.2008 | No Comments