On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
On Feb 21, 2016, at 02:57 , Mike Ross
<tmfdmike at gmail.com> wrote:
Looking back at a long
thread on vintage-computers last year it appears that tu58em had
timing issues and was unusable on 11/730 but is now patched and
working correctly... watch this space!
As a recap, I made a fork of tu58em which adds -x/--vax flags to work around a timing
issue that I encountered when using it with my VAX-11/730:
https://github.com/NF6X/tu58em/tree/nf6x
I was running tu58em on a Mac. I don't know if the same timing issue is present when
running tu58em on other platforms. If you want to try my modified fork, make sure you pull
code from the nf6x branch instead of the master branch; the master branch contains the
unmodified tu58em code that I patched.
I also put up the console tape images I use:
https://github.com/NF6X/VAX-11-730-Console-v57
Next time I resume playing with my 11/730, I'll probably work on getting tu58em
working with it when running on a Raspberry Pi, so I won't need to have my VAX
tethered to a laptop.
In the more distant future, I also plan to make a dedicated TU58 emulator that clicks
into place in one of the tape drive slots and plugs into the original internal cables.
It'll be unobtrusive, and the UI will be the same as on an original drive (simply swap
an SD card instead of swapping a tape). I like originality, but my experience so far has
led me to utterly distrust TU58 tape cartridges. I might even design it to connect inline
between the VAX and the real TU58 drive, such that when either SD card slot is empty,
accesses to that unit will be forwarded to the corresponding real TU58 drive unit.
Thanks for that. Are you able to provide confirmed working details &
pinouts for the cable? IIRC it was just three wire; Rx/Tx/Gnd? Would
help if I could have confirmed working setup there.
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