M8207 anyone?

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Wed Aug 9 23:19:15 2000

At 05:42 PM 8/9/00 -0700, Zane wrote:
>Is the LPV11 a bi-directional port? If you're trying to talk to a Parellel
>port Zip Drive I believe that will require a bi-directional port.

Not the old ones, they wrote 8 bits out and did "nybble-i/o" in for
non-bidirectional parallel ports. Makes them significantly slower on
transfer rate but their still faster than an RX50 :-)

--Chuck

>Personally for my PDP-11/73 I'm using removable PC SCSI Disk Sleds, this
>allows me to use 3.5" SCSI HD's as removable media. I've got two drive bays
>in the PDP-11 and another in my Linux box. Plus I've got a bunch of
>identical SCSI HD's. The drive bay in my Linux box allows me to make disk
>images of the PDP-11's SCSI HD's. Of course this solution requires you to
>have a SCSI Adapter for your PDP-11.

And the SCSI adapters are hard to find. Seemed like it would be a good hack
if I could make old (read tossed out) ZIP drives into a PDP disk peripheral.
Received on Wed Aug 09 2000 - 23:19:15 BST