On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:18 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 2/18/19 7:39 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > TU58, no -- that's not a file structured device on RSTS. RX33 is an > RX50 in a different physical package if I remember -- 800 block MSCP > device. That works fine, subject to the necessary tricks to get the files > on the floppies and do the switching. > > No, RX50 was a strange DEC format. RX33 is a 1.2M floppy. > The RX50 was a single sided 800 block floppy. The first two tracks had no interleave. The rest has 2:1 interleave, though sometimes physical and other times logical. Strange in some ways, kinda standard in others. But it's still a floppy, and other than size, much like the RX33 with 1/3 the number of blocks. Warner