From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Filesystem creation Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020513165905.B54326-100000@agora.rdrop.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux 8086 > It would be nice to find someone with an XT with 512-640K of RAM and > the casette drive, if only for an excuse to add /dev/tape 8) I've got both, but IBM did away with the cassette interface when they introduced the XT, so you won't find such a thing. I was only offered on the PC (5150, I believe). Of course you could always find a PC with a memory board that's got 640K of RAM. How you'd load ELKS from cassette to memory using ROM BASIC is beyond me though :) > Youch. I'd forgotton how big those prices were at the time Yea, no kidding, think what those 10 meg hard drives cost! Dan