vrs wrote:
It is pretty much an essential feature if you
don't have
block-replaceable media of some kind to boot from. Maybe
everyone is hiding block-replaceable media in their terminal
(PC) these days?
Yep!!! I will be for the moment.If I can get a IDE drive
working when I get my SBC6120 (PDP 8/e Clone )built I plan to use
a real terminal and dump the Pee-Cee. I just my PC for email,
Adult Games,and some surfing.
I you have a working block device and boot card, then
it is
just a luxury :-).
It still amazes me what they did with 4k of memory on the
8's
and 8Kb on 16 bit machines.
Vince