17 May
2013
17 May
'13
1:03 p.m.
On 17 May 2013, at 15:38, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
On 05/17/2013 03:31 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
True. I'm just not too fond of IDE. ;)
Oh, IDE blows dog, there's no question about that amongst people who have
any technical clue whatsoever. But it IS easy to interface to...I've even
done it (as have many others) with a microcontroller and a few dozen lines of
code. Try doing that with (for example) SATA...one would be lucky to even
get the physical layer talking. There is *nothing* ATA-like about SATA
beyond the name.
True. it IS easy to interface. ;)
Aren't there extremely steep licensing costs to get the specs for SATA?
>>>> IDE interface, or better, a SCSI
and/or ST-512-to-IDE interface ;o)
>>>
>>> For the PDP8? No way...!
>>>
>>
>> IDE on a PDP-8 would be...interesting to say the least.
>
> It's been done before..
People are strange. That says a lot coming from me, too...
Well, RK05s, DF32s, and TU56s are pretty hard to come by.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA