The disk drive was actually used as memory of the D-17B (and also as
the storage for the registers I believe, but I can't remember, and
BitSavers has no docs for the D17). But it essence, the D17's disk is
similar to the disk of the Autonetics RECOMP II (which DOES have
documents on BitSavers), so for a better general idea of what the disk
was used for, go check those documents.
The contents of the disk drive, though interesting, are probably not
going to be easy to get... and they can probably be summed up as: "Aim
for Moscow and go boom."
On 25 May 2011 12:31, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
In article <4DDD2B86.40108 at jwsss.com>,
? ?jim s <jws at jwsss.com> writes:
John B and I have one of the units + all the
cards from a second one.
We need the disk drive. ?for the unit to have it function.
Wouldn't it be better to emulate the disk at this point?
Or are you saying you need the *contents* of the disk in order to make
it funciton?
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