10 Dec
2017
10 Dec
'17
1:31 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Rich
Alderson via cctalk
Sent: 10 December 2017 08:22
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Subject: Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs
Happy DEC-10 Day!
It is my honor to announce that we at Living Computers: Museum + Labs are
releasing to the computing community our Massbus Disk Emulator and all the
associated software. This device connects via Massbus cables to the RH10
and
RH20 interfaces on KI-10 and KL-10 systems, to the
RH11 interface on KS-10
and small PDP-11 systems (including the front end 11/40 on the KL-10), and
to
the RH70 on the PDP-11/70. The MDE provides up to 8
emulated RP06 or RP07
disks (represented by disk files in the format used by the SimH emulation
of
these systems).
We expect that it will also work with the RH780 on the VAX-11/780 and
VAX-11/785 although we have not yet tested it in this configuration.
The original MDE was designed by Keith Perez in 2005, and emulated up to
four
RP06 drives connected to a KL-10. The current
generation was a redesign
by
Bruce Sherry in conjunction with the restoration of
our
DECsystem-1070 in 2012, and initially provided eight RP06 drives on the
RH10.
It has undergone continual development, with
associated software created
for
us by Bob Armstrong, and is now being opened up for
the use of the
relevant
communities.
To this end, we have placed the design files for the hardware and the
source
files for the software to interface with it, along
with our library of
Universal
Peripheral Emulator routines, on public access
repositories at Github.
The URLs
for these repositories are
https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/MDE2
https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/MBS
https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/UPELIB
These are released under a very liberal license which will allow for free
use of
the MDE by any interested party.
Happy Dec-10 Day!
Rich
Richard Alderson, Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computers: Museum + Labs
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
Cell: (206) 465-2916
Desk: (206) 342-2239
http://www.livingcomputerss.org/
All I need now is a PDP-10....
:-)