[Coco] LIF util for OS-9?
Mark Marlette
mmarlette at frontiernet.net
Wed Nov 2 11:42:28 EDT 2011
We had the 808x class emulators as well. Wrote an OS for a launching system missile simulator that was installed at Great Lakes Navel Training Base. Now that was a fun project!!!!
Was great to have hardware emulation / history in those early days. :)
Mark
http://www.cloud9tech.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 7:19:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] LIF util for OS-9?
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Mark Marlette wrote:
>
> Yep, we had them at work. Great in their day!!!!
About 15 years ago, someone gave me a complete system with two shelves
worth of documentation binders. I even had the IEEE-488 interface printer
that took two men and a boy to lift :-).
The 5MB hard disk drive was a floor-standing unit on wheels. It was the
size of a small high-efficiency boiler and weighed almost as much. Come
to think of it, it sounded like the boiler as well!
It came with cross-assemblers and Pascal cross-compilers for every
70s-early-80s microprocessor under the sun. Unfortunately, I had
emulation pods only for 8080 and 8086.
About four years ago, the wife said it had to go :-(. In truth, I haven't
missed it much. There are cross-tools available for Linux (although I
don't think any of them cover the Fairchild F8!) and my little Digiview
18ch USB logic analyzer far exceeds the specs of the HP.
Steve
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 6:34:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] LIF util for OS-9?
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> On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Willard Goosey wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I spent over 4 hours reverse-engineering HP's old LIF
>> filesystem. Then I discovered a great reference about it on the
>> web. ;-)
>
> My old HP64000 development system used that format for its diskettes.
> Anyone remember those beasts?
>
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