> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chuck McManis
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:54 PM
>
> Actually a more compelling idea for me would be to reverse engineer the
> processor on a modern disk drive (like a SCSI drive) and then
> reprogram the
> disk controller boards firmware such that the disk thought it was
> a PDP-11.
>
> --Chuck
Cute idea.
Aren't the newer IDE drives bus masters? The CPU on the drive could request
the bus, kick the Pentium off and put it to sleep permanently, and *be* the
PDP-11.
You could also build an adapter that allows the IDE drive to slide into the
first slot on a Qbus backplane and be the CPU.
Possible?
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Received on Tue Sep 18 2001 - 14:34:19 BST