9 May
2010
9 May
'10
2:02 p.m.
Ersatz has an RX01 capable controller....
Tony Duell wrote:
Just walked
past a pair of RX02's in the garage for the umpteenth time,
and the thought came to me, could I get these badboys hooked up to my
PC??? They are MFM format, should be feasible perhaps with a proper
controller board... maybe.
Anyone ever try such an endeavor? ...and have any success?
I've not done it, but it shouldn't' be that difficult. The contoller board
is actually insife the RX02 chassis. The inteface back to the interface
board in the Unibus/Qbus/Omnibus is a bit-serial one, timed from the RX02
end, and the interface board is essentially a shift register and a little
logic. It should eb quite easy to recreate that and link it to a PC.
-tony