VAX-11 TU-58 MEDIA

The TU-58 tapes were recovered using a laptop with a 2.16GHz Duo Core 2 processor running VMWare hosting MS-DOS 6.2 with a USB serial port talking to an external dual TU-58 DECtape II drive using PUTR software. Each of the tape files is exactly 262,144 bytes which is the standard size for a TU-58 tape cartridge. All tapes were original official DEC cartidges

Each tape was read at least twice and compared to a previous read from a different TU58 drive to ensure all tapes were correctly read. Unfortunately, not all tapes were readable.

All media and documentation at this site will eventually make their way to the permanent location at bitsavers.org.

If you have any media or documentation for old interesting machines, please get the various bits to bitsavers.org. Preserve the bits before they are gone forever! :-)


VAX-11/750 Diagnostic Tapes
VAX-11/750 Console Tapes
VMS
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