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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2907.1 | Any Venus system will do. | MSE1::PCOTE | Progammer-side air bag in place | Fri Feb 18 1994 11:41 | 6 |
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Any VAX 86x0 can do the trick. The console/diags pack is a RL02.
Simply remove the pack and spin up your disk. I believe the
EXCHANGE utility can be use to copy the data from the RL02 to
a local disk.
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| 2907.2 | Even easier with RSX | NESSIE::SOJDA | | Fri Feb 18 1994 14:05 | 9 |
| If the OS is RT-11 or RSTS, then EXCHANGE works easily. If the OS is RSX, then
you don't even need to do that. Just MOUNT the disks as an ODS-1 volume on VMS
(not sure of the exact syntax) and you can access or copy the files directly on
to a VMS volume.
However, if I read .0 correctly I think the problem is not having access to a
VMS system with RL02 disks
Larry
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| 2907.3 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Sun Feb 20 1994 04:01 | 24 |
| You don't mention how many RL02 disks he needs to copy.
If you move them to a place in-house where we have an RL02 drive
then there is the cost of transporting the disks there (and presumably
back again), the cost of a DEC person's time to do the copy, and the
cost of the media that can be read by the VAX 6000s. All of these
increase with the number of RL02s.
As an alternative you could sell him an Ethernet interface, DECnet
software for the PDP-11/23, and a couple of hours of consultancy to set
up a copy procedure that some unskilled member of his staff could
follow. All of these are flat costs independant of the number of RL02s.
The only variable part of his cost is the time of his own unskilled
person. And he has an increased value PDP-11/23 if he decides to
re-sell it when he has finished all the copies. There might be a very
similar approach selling them a tape drive instead of an Ethernet
interface.
There must be a cross-over point between the two approaches, and I
would have no idea where that might be. I used to know a customer that
had an archive of several hundred RL02s - you would need a removals
firm to get them to a DEC office, have to throw half a dozen employees
out of their offices to store the disks while they were being copied,
and have man-weeks of someone feeding disks into the drive.
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| 2907.4 | "Software Publishing Service" | MIMS::PRENDERGAST | | Thu Feb 24 1994 14:14 | 6 |
| There is the "Software Publishing Service" for media replication and
duplication. This is a service sold to customers. To get more
information call 1-800-448-MRDS to determine if this is appropriate for
this customer.
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