Emulating an RX02 via parallel port (was Re: Most used toys, was Re: The late, great TRS-80) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Jun 2007

On 6/27/07, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
...
  For PDP-8 ops, even 10mb is a "large"  disk
I'm sure so even a 1mb ram
 could work well as a "ramdisk". 
Sure... since OS/8 uses 12-bit block pointers, 10MB works out to 5
"devices".  1MB of RAM for a RAM disk isn't tiny, either.

-ethan