12 Dec
2013
12 Dec
'13
9:01 p.m.
On 12/12/2013 08:08 PM, dwight wrote:
I don't recall what hard drive it was that we used
when back at
Intel. We used a number of Series IIs and MDS-800s. We had some
type of network so that hard drive could be shared between
machines.
I do recall that the hard disk for the MDS was *expensive*, something
into the low 5 digits. But, in general, that was true of any of the
stuff that was MDS-related.
It was possible to build your own MDS-ish system if you picked up one
the of the Multibus card cages, supplied your own power supply and used
Intel's cards to populate the system. We had a system that booted
ISIS-II just fine constructed that way.
One thing that I remember about ISIS-II is that there were no "builtin"
commands--everything loaded from disk, even COPY. The syntax was a bit
more intuitive than than CP/M-; e.g. to copy a file from one drive to
another, it was "COPY :F0:THISFILE TO :F1:" I also recall that location
4000H was a magic location in ISIS--where user programs got loaded, maybe?
--Chuck