20 Sep
2004
20 Sep
'04
8:51 p.m.
My wife did actually help me put those 100+ pound RK05 drives
into the big rack. A few days later I had to call her in to watch
as I had RSTS running and I had the cover off one of the RK05s
and the read / write heads were moving in and out as I ran a
program I wrote to exercise the heads and move them to various
sectors.
nah to scare my wife all i'd need to do is to get
her to help me
clean the
cobwebs out of the big iron :D
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I suppose what I would want to know is what can I run RSTS from that
won't scare my wife, and
would look sort of like a PC (box only)
Scare your wife? I can tell you how to do that. She used to think I
was a bit extreme because I had 7 PCs in various places in the house
and in my workshop, and I made a big deal of wiring every room with
two ethernet connections when we built our new home 3 years ago.