Because i have a spare, small laptop. That's why.
The emulator-board from
http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/ is a very good
way to implement a TU-58 emulator, but i do not have one.
Yet. 8-)
ms
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 18:53, Doc wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >
> > The reason for using the other VAX is to use it to easily create the
> > filesystem on the emulated tape. If you had a way to read the tape
> > that you do have, you could just put the image on the PC, run the
> > TU-58 emulator and go.
>
> OK, the reason I haven't joined this thread before is that I'm almost
> entirely ignorant wrt console tapes. Plus, up to this point an emulated
> TU-58 wouldn't get data off the orphan tapes, so an emulator wouldn't
> help much.
> My question is, why go the small-PC route instead of using something
> like the TU-58 emulator at
> http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/TU58_Emulator.htm ?
>
> It is really a question, not a suggestion. I think I'm missing a
> point somewhere....
>
> Doc
>
>
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