31 Jan
2014
31 Jan
'14
8:14 p.m.
From: Josh Dersch
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 12:17 AM
I'd like to adapt it to provide 1280 byte sectors
so that it can be used
in Symbolics machines. I just ordered one and once I get settled in
after moving house I plan to play around with the firmware source.
2304 bytes, for use with a certain manufacturer's extended clone of a vintage
mainframe. That's 512 words' worth of bits, the page size of the memory.
(It'd also be nice to be able to configure the
device to provide a
specific geometry, to satisfy hardware (or software) that only knows
about certain fixed drives, like the 3B2 1000's Unix installer. It
supports faking the Vendor ID, which is helpful...)
Also a nicety.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/