17 Oct
2016
17 Oct
'16
10:28 a.m.
On Oct 17, 2016, at 10:23 AM, Josh Dersch <derschjo
at gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr <ggs at shiresoft.com>
wrote:
Don't, at least not for the Symbolics gear. The DREM only works with hard
drive controllers it knows about, and the Symbolics ain't one of them. I
chatted with the developers about what it would take to support them and
they see it as being possible, but couldn't commit to it without having
hardware on hand to test with. And given how hard it is to get a Symbolics
machine to even format a disk once you have a working machine, it's not
likely to happen anytime soon.
Sad. :-(
That probably means it won?t work with the 3174 either.
It sounds like they?re not doing bit level capture/replay but actually trying
to emulate the actual format (ie knowing about how sectors and addressing
are laid out). It make the end result (ie what?s on the SD card) a bit more
usable but it also makes the emulation dependent upon what controller is
being used.
TTFN - Guy
On Oct 17, 2016, at 9:58 AM, js at cimmeri.com
wrote:
On 10/17/2016 11:18 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
>> On Oct 17, 2016, at 11:58 AM, emanuel stiebler<emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> anybody has any experience with that:
>>
>> http://www.drem.info/
>>
>> ?
> Yes, I'm currently in the process of getting the DREM working with a
Tandy
6000 and Xenix. ...
About $250? Wish it were half that. Seems like they could sell more
than twice
as many at half the price, and more than 4 times as many at
1/4th the price.
Really? Come on guys, this stuff costs $$?s to produce and they may
actually want to make some profit. If you?re doing small volume stuff
(10?s-100?s vs 100,000?s - 1,000,000?s) it?s going to be a bit pricey.
Frankly, to get the price to drop to half ($125), you?d probably have to
get 10x-100x quantity increase. I know because I face the same thing when
trying to produce my boards. Assembly will typically double the cost of
the board + components.
I?ll likely be getting at least 3 of them (1 for the IBM 3174 and 2 for my
Symbolics 3640 and possible another 2 for my other Symbolics 3640).