18 May
2013
18 May
'13
4:55 p.m.
On 18/05/13 6:39 PM, allison wrote:
Way, way too much.
On 05/18/2013 04:50 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> ...
> Yebbut...having a grand old system like a PDP-11 on "life support" by
> connecting it to a PC is something that I (and others) find extremely
> distasteful.
+1
A standalone
device would definitely have a market.
-Dave
I agree. Besides a whole pc is wasted. All that is needed is a
Beagleboard or RaspberryPi
running linux and the TU58 emulation for two drives. Heck an 8051
can do
that (see spare
time gizmos tu58em)!
A more modern version could easily put a 8gb micro SD effectively at the
end of a serial port
for many different machines as most all DEC machines had serial and a
serial board is the
easiest thing to build for PDP8, and they are common for PDP11, same for
VAX.
Isn't the problem there that you need new drivers to use it as a disk?
Or am I misunderstanding you?
And, fast enough?
--Toby