23 Dec
2013
23 Dec
'13
1:44 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 12/23/13 11:55 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
That looks cool! I appreciate what Brad is saying about the
complexity of implementing an MSCP interface, but perhaps something
simple but larger than RK05s would be a good compromise, like the
RK611/RK07? We had real ones on an 11/750 and except for the MB/cu ft
ratio, they were quite nice and should work very, very well on a
PDP-11. We had 4.0BSD, 4.1BSD, and SysV packs for ours, but we could
have run 4.something VMS on them too. I know the machine ran VMS
3.something when it was first purchased.
I would loved to have saved them when the company closed, but that's
one of the things I had to leave behind.
-ethan
I'm not saying don't try, but you might
want to start small like providing
a multi-serial interface to your PDP-11 and hang a virtual (or externally
emulated) TU58 off of that.
Look at Brad's implementation
www.heeltoe.com/download/pdp11/README.html