Simulated disk drive for RT-11?

[Curt at Atari Museum]

I have an much earlier version of SIO2PC which was done in-house within 
Atari by Dave Sheppard called ATIP to allow Atari 800's to connect to 
VAX's and transfer files to/from them for development work, if anyone 
would like a copy, it may be a step in the right direction to making 
something described below.


Curt



David Betz wrote:

> I have a device that plugs into a serial port on a PC and looks like a 
> disk drive to an Atari 800. Is there such a thing for RT-11? It seems 
> like it should be possible to write a disk driver that uses a serial 
> port and some sort of serial protocol to communicate with a PC and 
> make RT-11 think it is accessing a local disk drive. Has anyone done 
> anything like that? I have a PDP-11/23 system that is taking up too 
> much space and I would like to replace it with a small QBus backplane 
> containing an 11/23 CPU, some memory and a multi-port serial card. I 
> would use one serial port as the console and another as the "disk" 
> connection back to a PC. Has this been done before?
>
> Another related question is what is the smallest QBus backplane 
> mounted in a box with a power supply that will support an 11/23 CPU 
> (M8186), a memory card (M8044) and a serial port/boot rom card (M8047) 
> and maybe a multi-port serial card (M8043)?
>
> Thanks!
> David
>
>
>


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