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They don't currently have any way of writing to the disk except using the Alto itself, which would require booting it first. Once they get it working they shoul
by makomk 10y ago
They don't currently have any way of writing to the disk except using the Alto itself, which would require booting it first. Once they get it working they should be able to create their own boot disk.
- simcop2387 10y agoThey had that test jig in the previous video that could drive the disk and read it (and i think write it). That would have allowed them to do so, i would think, regardless of how slow it might have been.
- baobrien 10y agoThe FPGA disk emulator/interface isn't quite working yet. http://www.righto.com/2016/09/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-day-7.html http://www.righto.com/2016/09/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-day-7...
- linker3000 10y agoThat's a bit like my old soldering iron - the heating element was soldered to its wiring, so you needed a soldering iron to fix the soldering iron.