> Which brings up another interesting point, how many
> Hobbyists are running any of their PDP-11's with SCSI controllers?
...or how many would like to? (My hand is raised). While not being a 'pure'
PDP-11, it does offer some significant advantages.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of healyzh_at_aracnet.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:05 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: RT-11 - An Open letter to Mentec?
>
>
> > If you look at what Tim Shoppa did with the RT-11 Freeware CD, that
> > seems like a good model. The files were duplicated in both the DOS
> > and RT-11 portions. The RT-11 portions were set up as RT-11 partitions
> > which can be read on a PC, along with the DOS files. I don't have a
> > CDROM on the real PDP-11 hardware that is compatible with the
> > Qbus host adapter, so I can't comment on what a real PDP-11 sees, but
> > I presume that others have done so.
>
> I think an important question would be, is this worth the
> additional effort
> it would take someone to put together? Or to put it another way,
> are there
> any hobbyists besides myself with a CD-ROM on thier main PDP-11? I know
> you've tried unsuccessfully to get a CD-ROM drive that will work with your
> SCSI controller. Which brings up another interesting point, how many
> Hobbyists are running any of their PDP-11's with SCSI controllers?
>
> Zane
>
Received on Tue Apr 17 2001 - 23:46:21 BST