TU58 Peripheral Emulation

From: Mitch Wright <mew_jac_at_swbell.net>
Date: Sun Mar 26 07:05:48 2000

 I believe Tim Shoppa has a TU58 emulator product. Maybe Tim can tell us
the state and cost of the product? I also have some code gathered up over
the last few years for DOS and Linux. If anyone is interested I can dig it
out...

Regards,



At 11:19 PM 3/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
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>The main problem with the version on dBit's ftp site is it assumes
>VAX byte order. The command packets are loaded byte for byte into
>the data structure which messes up all the shorts. The same problem
>exists for the response packets.
>
>clint
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>On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Allison J Parent wrote:
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>> <I've already asked John Wilson this, but has anyone compiled the one
>> <available on dBit's ftp site for Linux? Or know of another one for
>> <Linux/Windows that's available online? I'd like to try it out...
>>
>> I've looked at it and it's a bit old but should work. All a tu58 is
>> if you ignor the tape drive itself is a 256k block addressable memeory at
>> the end of a serial line talking a packet protocal. It only took 2048
>> bytes (with selftest and autoboot) of 8085 code to do it so it's not
>> rocket science.
>>
>> Now to do that on a PC or whatever running most any OS is to beable to
>> create a datafile of 256k and address any 512bytes block within it. So if
>> you look at that code most of the work is working aound the OS!
>>
>> Allison
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Received on Sun Mar 26 2000 - 07:05:48 BST