Simulated disk drive for RT-11?

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: Simulated disk drive for RT-11?
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>>>>>> "David" == David Betz <dbetz at xlisper.mv.com> writes:
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> David> I have a device that plugs into a serial port on a PC and
> David> looks like a disk drive to an Atari 800. Is there such a thing
> David> for RT-11? It seems like it should be possible to write a disk
> David> driver that uses a serial port and some sort of serial
> David> protocol to communicate with a PC and make RT-11 think it is
> David> accessing a local disk drive.
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>You could make it look like a TU-58, which is a block structured
>device.  So RT11 should treat that like a disk.  
>

Thats what the doctor ordered.  I have one here, 11/23, 256k, 2serial
in a BA11BV 4 slot box and a TU58 (the boxed version).  Two drives
256k per drive and slower than slow (tape seeks take forever).  A 
very compact PDP-11.  I also have one, ba11 with 11/23, 32kW ram 2 serial
and a RQDX3 that allows a hard disk and floppy.  Thats fairly compact too.


Allison