VAX 11/725

--- brian roth <brian.roth(a)firstniagarabank.com> wrote: I only ever had my hands on the one in my old VAX. They were available standalone, but pricey. What's the problem? Rollers turn to goo? Electronic failure? There is out there a TU-58 emulator for PeeCee. I've seen it and I've always wanted to put one together, perhaps with a floppy drive so it would be possible to still swap media, after a fashion. With the things I've been playing with in the modern hardware arena, I've also contemplated taking the emulator and sticking a modern CPU in one of these encyclopedia-sized cases I have and adding a text LCD display on the front and a couple of buttons (though the joystick port) and building up a virtual tape library. The ultimate incarnation would be able to hang a _real_ TU-58 off of it and be able to read and write _real_ tapes as well as act as a cache/jukebox. In that form, it would make a nice standalone backup device for DECtapeII. Got a drive I can borrow in a VT103, got hardware, got the RSP spec (Radial Serial Protocol), got tapes. Don't got time. :-( It's been on my fantasy project list for ten years and has managed to only move _down_ the priority list since then. Maybe when I dig that 11/730 out of the storage locker... -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/