PDP-8: (and others) anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives?

From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
Date: Sat Feb 1 08:38:00 2003

Use whatever your comfortable with using.

I reccomend against emulating disk with flash. Flash is ideal for
emulating a paper tape
reader / punch, but the write performance is low for disk, and the write
endurance issues get
scarey too.

ben franchuk wrote:

> Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
>> If I were more comfortable with FPGA/CPLD design, I would probably go
>> that route. My expertise is more in microprocessors; I was
>> contemplating
>> throwing an MC68000 on the other end of the bus since I have extensive
>> stocks (dozens of tubes), a large assortment of hardware debugging tools
>> (code trace analyzers, a Flike 9010A, etc.) and lots of expertise
>
>
> So what is wrong with a 8 bit cpu since a 68000 is overkill.
> BGmicro has surplus 512k x 8 flash $1.00 each if need cheap
> memory but they have real HD's for $21.50 each. Now my question
> is" are you designing a new interface or emulating a old one".
> Ben.
> Personaly I have hard time dealing with a CPU on a i/o card
> that is more powerfull than the PDP.
Received on Sat Feb 01 2003 - 08:38:00 GMT