[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Rich Alderson]

> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:04:18 +0000
> From: skyvis at sky-visions.com

> For example the B5500 does not have the concept of a mountable pack.
> Drives could be attached, but they were a permanent attachment. For the
> Ibm 7000 line, most did not support disk. The disk drive that was
> supported by many of the machines was a large box that you could not
> put drives into (IBM 1301/2301). Also these machines all worked in BCD
> (6 bit), not Ascii.

> I am also not sure when TOPS10 got support for
> mounting foreign file systems. I don't believe that 6.03 or 5.03
> support this idea. 

As of 7.05 (the very last maintenance release, from 1990) it still hadn't.
I work with it daily.

                                                                Rich