>"Fred N. van Kempen" wrote:
> > Jerome Fine replied:
> > But that is where I draw the line as far as "production" hardware
> > is concerned. I don't regard a 60 lb. RL02 drive as reasonable
> > because of BOTH the size and the weight - aside from the fact
> > that the capacity is only 10 MBytes.
> Yeah, but they are way cool, too, like the RK05's.... I truly wish
> I had the physical space to put up some racks with an 11/40, 11/34a
> and an 11/70 side-by-side -with- all the stuff that used to go with
> them... *sigh*
Jerome Fine replies:
I probably have the room, but not the inclination. I am
really a software person - the hardware is just there to
run the software - well mostly - my wife certainly would
not agree when she she looks at the basement full of
PDP-11 junk.
As for using the RL02 and RK05 drives, while I have
one RK05 drive at the moment and a borrowed RKV11-D
(THANK YOU Ethan Dicks - which I am close to being
finished with) to recover some RK05 packs I obtained
last year in Montreal, I would NEVER consider using the
RL02 drives, let alone the RK05 drive, as a production
unit to fix software bugs, etc. So if I really want to run
some code which can only be run using an RK05 device
driver under RT-11, I would use Ersatz-11 and run the
code on a PC under Windows 98 SE/Ersatz-11. About
the only problem is that it will run TOO FAST - about
15 times the speed of a PDP-11/93 right now and
eventually I hope to get to 50 times the speed of a
PDP-11/93 when a high end Pentium 4 is cheap enough.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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Received on Thu Oct 03 2002 - 09:26:01 BST