28 Jan
2004
28 Jan
'04
9:07 a.m.
I would like the ability to read these, and others locally... there are so
many uses for a good tapedrive!
ed!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org>
To: "ed sharpe" <esharpe(a)uswest.net>et>; "General Discussion: On-Topic
and
Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: HP2000/Access - (hpemu clarification)
nite
multiple
The
Ed;
Send me your tapes and I'll read them.
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "ed sharpe" <esharpe(a)uswest.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: HP2000/Access - (hpemu clarification)
chat
interesting thing we had on the access system two
things actually... one
was
> a bbs with 100 message boards, mail system and vote and a multi user that worked
through writing and reading a disc file......
the other was a giant space war game that had the universe held in a
matrix in a disc file.... before I got lock feet for the 2883 we would
have
> to come in a kick it back into place after the local kids spent all playing the
game.... I wonder if my old tapes will still load.. guess I
am
looking for a tape drive that will hook to a pc
with controller ready to
go
> turnkey... any suggestions?
>
> ed sharpe archivist for smecc
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Gemeny" <MGemeny(a)pgcps.org>
> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:09 PM
> Subject: HP2000/Access - (hpemu clarification)
>
>
> >
> > Jay wrote:
> > >To my knowledge the only way SIMH might do this is if you ran
> > >copies of SIMH, perhaps in separate
windows. And even then, not sure
it
>would let you cross connect cables between the
systems. But I may be
wrong
> >about this.
>
> Yep, that?s the way the Access Zip launches SIMH to run Access or ?F?. two
> occurrences of SIMH are connected with a pair of sockets.
>
> Sure, we know it?s inefficient. But just now, it?s the only way to run
?F?
or Access,
were
without real hardware, and, they both do run
under simulation, IOP and
all!
>
> I had a guest come over this past weekend with a set of tapes and we able
blast
to read and reload his tapes into a running
simulation. All in all, we
spent 9 hours
> at it, and 2 of those were spent breaking into his system.
>
> What we ended up doing was to ?RESTORE? a $HELLO from some other HIBE
> tape in order to get past his ridiculously tight security. We had a banging
our heads together on it, but I want to let him
tell that story.
The bottom line is that Access IS ALIVE under simulation!!!!
It only gets better from here? Take the ZIP for a spin!
Mike.