Simulated disk drive for RT-11?

[David Betz]

Cool. Where do I get a BA11 4 slot box? It  sounds like just what I 
need. Anyone have one they'd like to sell (or trade for an 11/23 and 
RX02 drive)?

On Jun 3, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Allison wrote:

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>> Subject: Re: Simulated disk drive for RT-11?
>>
>>>>>>> "David" == David Betz <dbetz at xlisper.mv.com> writes:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>