9 Jun
2006
9 Jun
'06
4:16 a.m.
On 6/8/2006 at 11:16 AM Philip Freidin wrote:
I added a 4 GB hard drive from one of my dead laptop
computers, and
it looks like ~1600 RK05 packs. Bob's virtualization software for the
hard drive lets you mount any 8 packs at a time. With 1600 of them,
You get to have a lot of scratch packs :-). OS8 runs fine on it.
Didn't one of the first hard disks for the Apple ][ work like that? It was
a shoebox-sized unit (drive made by IMI, maybe?). Mapped into something
like 50 floppies.
So, what does one do with a PDP-8 clone?
Cheers,
Chuck