PDP-11 RL02 disk emulation

william degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 11:35:40 CDT 2016


On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > From: Scott Baker
>
>     > Feedback on this project is most welcome.
>
> Any chance it could be put into 'production'? It just seems to me that
> rather than having 53 people send in individual orders for boards, etc
> it would be better (and also perhaps get a price break due to volume)
> to do a small run. (You may not want to produce complete boards, but
> even kits would be useful.)
>
> I think an RL02 simulator is a great idea; those of us with RL0x
> controllers
> could use this most of the time, avoiding potential damage to our old
> drives/disks; I know I would buy several if they were available.
>
> Also, what FPGA board are you using? I assume it's one that has an SD
> card socket or something, for actually storing the bits on?
>
>         Noel
>


Would also be useful for testing unknown controllers and RL02 packs.
b


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