MASSBUS disk emulator (Was: Unibus controller for MFM disks)

Ian S. King isking at uw.edu
Mon Oct 17 19:59:46 CDT 2016


I've made some inquries, stay tuned....

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se>
wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:16:10PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> >     > From: Ian S. King
> >
> >     > When I left in 2014, LCM's Massbus disk emulator was working quite
> well
> >     > indeed, and was running in 'production' ... ISTR the plan was
> always to
> >     > open-source the hardware and firmware, too.
> >
> > I'm interested in this (as I suspect are lots of other people with
> machines
> > that can use MASSBUS disks). Can you briefly describe what it was? Does
> > anyone know anything about the status of the plans to open-source it?
> >
> >       Noel
>
>
> Yes! While I intend to get my Massbus disks running. An emulator would
> be a great stepping stone.
>
> /P
>



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