[Simh] MicroSD Card for SimH on Raspberry Pi 3

[Tim Shoppa]

I have been running nearly a hundred PC/104 systems with 2002 era IDE flash and SIMH 24x7 for the past 17 years. No evidence of any Flash write cycle life limits in this application.

The application is not disk-intensive and modern SD cards could be worse than the ancient flash modules (but I would expect a SD card to have wear leveling at least)

PC/104 was the raspberry pi for us a few decades ago :-)

Tim

> On Dec 6, 2017, at 9:38 PM, Timothe Litt <litt at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> Consider a hard drive if you expect a non-trivial disk I/O load - SD cards do wear out.
> 
>> On 06-Dec-17 21:08, khandy21yo wrote:
>> If you're just starting off with a pi, it might be easiest to buy a kit, which includes all the necessary parts to get started, including power supply, case, heat sinks, HDMI cable, and a SIM card preloaded with an os. Available on Amazon, and many others. 
>> 
>> Get a 32 or larger card if you want to set up a lot of drives. And the pi3 is powerful enough for a lot of other games and stuff. Full Linux environment available, including compi,are, web browsers,, ...Fun toy.
>> 
>> If you don't have hdmi display available, get a HDMI to  vga converter. Also a usb keyboard and mouse.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A
>> 
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Shaun McCloud <shaun.thomas.mccloud at gmail.com>
>> Date: 12/6/17 5:33 PM (GMT-07:00)
>> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
>> Subject: [Simh] MicroSD Card for SimH on Raspberry Pi 3
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have just gotten into SimH and am planning on getting a Raspberry Pi 3 for my SimH usage, just to not use up a lot of space on my laptop.  What is a good MicroSD card for the Pi 3 and SimH?  Or does it not really matter as long as it works fine in the Pi 3 on its own and has capacity for what I want to do?
>> 
>> Shaun McCloud, MCDST
>> 
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