15 Apr
2013
15 Apr
'13
7:25 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:42 PM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Apr 14, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Mouse <mouse at
rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
Also, Strobe Data:
http://www.strobedata.com/home/ospreyguide.html
No idea if those products are still available. From price list
snapshots which show up in online searches looks like these
configurations were somewhere in the $20K - $50K range.
One is hardware compatability. If you have a
device whose host
interface consists of some half-dozen Unibus slots with custom
backplane wiring (I used such a thing back in the '80s), emulators, in
general, just don't cut it. (In principle there's no reason they
couldn't. But if anyone makes a bridge allowing use of Qbus - or
Unibus, or Sbus, or etc - hardware on a more modern system, I really
want to know about it....)
Oh, that absolutely exists, pretty much for that exact purpose.
http://www.comwaretech.com/PDP-11/DEC-PDP-11-emulator.html
Probably expensive as hell, but it's meant for people who need
the existing hardware to work because the cost or other risk
of engineering a replacement system is even greater.