[net.micro.cpm] Floppies on VAX

ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA (02/03/84)

From:  Mike Ciaraldi <ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA>

There is a program called CPMUTL.C on the SIMTEL archives
in MICRO:<UNIX.CPM>.
This is supposed to run on a 780 and let you read and write CP/M
floppies under Unix. I have not tried it,
so I don't know if 1) it works, and 2) it would work on
a 750. But, you might try.

This message is in response to a
question from allegra!fortune!burton.

Mike Ciaraldi
ciaraldi@rochester

dave@rocksvax.UUCP (02/08/84)

We got that here, woork great... Probably won't work on a 750, they have
no floppy disk drive built in.   The thing is painfully slow however, no
fault of the program, just the RX01 interface in the VAX, which is basically
connected via RS232 to the PDP11 which talks through a byte or something in
the VAX.  Hokey but it was only intended to boot the machine and run
diagnostics.

We use MODEM7 on an 820 now, because it goes a bit faster....
-- 
Dave

Arpa: Sewhuk.HENR@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
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