[Simh] Fwd: 8-inch floppies and Blinking Lights.

[Brett Bump]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Gregg Levine wrote:

> Hello!
> I'm not sure about the status of this one, but the fellow behind E11
> once created a gizmo that would allow an 8-inch device to be used in a
> 51/4 arrangement. Remember I am describing it based on third hand
> information.
>
> But I am reasonably certain that Stan Q, can help our questioner.
>
> Also 8-inch hardware frequently surfaces at used equipment meets.
>
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The "fellow" behind E11 is John Wilson (dbit.com).  He also at one time
built a register display interface for the PC so you could see address
and data bits (just like on the REAL PDP-11's we use to run).  Alas, the
last time I talked to John about this, I think he made a number of these
(taking a loss in the process), but didn't sell very many (if at all).
A designer with true skills and talent, trying to make a simple buck in
a very limited market with not much left except we few hobby users.

Brett