22 Dec
2005
22 Dec
'05
7:57 p.m.
On 12/22/05, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:
"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
An interesting thought, but weren't the RP disks formatted to 18-bit
words when used on 36-bit hosts? If one kludged up an interface with
some smarts, perhaps one could format a SCSI disk to something other
than 512 8-bit-bytes per sector. The RP20(?) emulator could then
request a larger block, then repackage it and feed it up to the KS10
as 36-bit words.
How did Systems Concepts do it? I know they have differential SCSI
interfaces and drives, but I have no clue about the internals?
-ethan
(who doesn't own any 36-bit hardware, but enjoys running TOPS-20 on klh10)
While the CPU's are showing up, how about Disk and Tape drives? They're
*one* of the reasons I've never looked into getting a real PDP-10, though
space and power are about as important for me :^(
I'm assuming one could run a KS-10 with a minimal unibus and say, kludge
up an RP06 style disk interface.