20 May
2013
20 May
'13
9:10 p.m.
On May 20, 2013, at 8:42 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Philipp Hachtmann
<hachti at hachti.de> wrote:
> Who would be willing to pay $300+ for an RK05 or RL01/02 emulator which can
> be plugged in instead of a real drive?
Me, for one. I made the offer on the vintage computer forum.
Someone with three kinds of busses (Omnibus, Unibus, and Qbus) who
doesn't want to buy three different $300+ boards.
Another aspect of drive level emulation is that
you would have to store raw
sector data which could not be used on a PC without a tool playing the
specific controller in software...
That's just tools - we used to use Exchange to read/write one type of
filesystem from another type of machine. It doesn't matter what the
target format is, only that you can get files in and out of where you
need to.
-ethan