On 2026-07-16 11:04, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
Hello, all,
But, that is not a likely long term solution. Is there a Q-bus MSCP disk controller that takes something like SD cards? I think I have seen some projects like that. Anybody know?
https://retrocmp.com/projects/qbone/313-qbone-introduction and a new one in development: https://www.5volts.ch/pages/mscpemulator/010-introduction/ (you can follow it on Vintage Computer Forum)
I have 2 ESDI drives with VMS on them (last time they were used) and I also have a tape container file of a VMS BACKUP tape of my system from about 1993. What would be great is a procedure to get the whole bootable file system off that BACKUP file or the extracted files from that. All of these files are now on a Linux system.
I think your drives are shot. If they click forever, and give errors, fun ahead :( Where are you located? Cheers
