SCSI drive available

From: Fred N. van Kempen <Fred.van.Kempen_at_microwalt.nl>
Date: Thu Oct 3 09:44:01 2002

> 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.
Ahh, but that merely takes a quick

#ifdef WIFE
# undef WIFE
# define WIFE GEEK_WIFE
#endif

to fix... :)

> 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.
I do all my Ultrix-11 development under E11 too, simple
because (a) it's a hell of a lot faster, and (b) I can
take Falcon (the "machine") with me, including its four
RA82 drives and all the others. :)

Still.. I do try make sure it still runs (acceptably) on
Real Hardware as much as possible. Which usually means
teaming with retrogeek-friends for Yet Another retro-session.

(did I mention the WIFE issue already? They usually seem to
have issues with these sessions, too.. duuno why ;-)

So... OK. I probably would not run a bunch of RP's for fun
anymore. However, I have friends ['lo, ed ;-] that do, soo... :)

--fred
Received on Thu Oct 03 2002 - 09:44:01 BST