26 Oct
2025
26 Oct
'25
5:21 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 07:30:58PM -0400, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
As long as we're talking about it, is there anywhere that
images for it are being archived?
I've linked to a few images people have sent me or I've made but I
don't
know of any large collection.
https://www.pdp8online.com/mfm/status.shtml
And, can one build an image on an emulator (like SIMH
or Ersatz-11)
and use it on a real system or will I need to build all my images
on real hardware?
For many machines yes. For many DEC controllers what the OS sees isn't
exactly the same as whats on the disk. Some space is used by controller and
some remap bad sectors but don't use the sector headers for that. Someone
would need to take the time to figure out what the controller is doing and
write code to manupilate the images.
I know RQDX3 remaps. Not sure about other controllers.