11 Oct
2012
11 Oct
'12
6:19 a.m.
On 10/10/2012 12:25 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
Hmm, maybe they'll put them in a giant ring, each drive plugged into its
own interface module, and drive (n+1) only becomes active when drive (n)
has received a predetermined number of step signals.
Or maybe we'll see a message in a couple of weeks asking for 7,500
new-in-box 486 PCs?
I think you're on the right track. My guess
is that they're building
an on-line software repository to archive the 15,000 diskettes with
software they have, and want to do it using original-era hardware.
They will need 14 bits of address select for them!