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Using Mass Storage Devices on Simh PDP-11/RT-11: Paper Tape, Diskette, Dectape
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago"Mass storage". "Diskette". Wow, the world has changed.
- OneHeartCancer 4y agoOld diskettes, tapes, etc, cardboards, are --should-- be classified as weapons of mass destruction. Backup your bits, dudes/dude'ettes! < 3 ONE LOVE < 3 Happpy new year++(s)
- zh3 4y agoI wrote various device drivers for RT-11 back in the day, including for one of the first winchesters (Rodime 5Mb, which was a big step-up from 8" floppies - so much so I partitioned the driver into 8 separate areas). The boot ROM was 256 words, and in there was boot code for the winchester, 8" and 5 1/4" floppies and a CLI to select between them (including the unit number). One of the tricks I recall used the need to load locations 100 and 102 with the vector and processor status word for the BEV (bus event/timer) interupt. At the end, I needed 3 words to load the read sector command for the 8" floppy but only had 2 left. Noticing that the read sector command was 204, I got that by shifting the leftover address for the BEV vector processor status word up one bit (102 => 204) and finished the job with a word to spare.