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saildart / waits-disk-kits

This repository provides tool kits for building WAITS-1974 disk images for simulators. Tiny and small samples are included, larger disk images are built by accessing the SAILDART archive.

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Open larsbrinkhoff opened 3 years ago

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

In addition to the 1974 based disk images, I'd like to suggest some additional kits. Some of them may be a pipe dream, but it's always fun to make a wish list.

The earliest workable set of files from 1972.
The last KA10 system from May 1976, using the BBN pager for larger physical memory.
Something from the early KL10 era: 1976-1983. Maybe 1979 with the Samson box and some CCMRA software. Or maybe 1982/83 with the sailboat WHOPHN.
Something from the KL10+RH20 era: 1983-1990.

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

FYI @rcornwell, see above.

bgbaumgart commented 3 years ago

Yes @larsbrinkhoff once I have the WAITS 6.17 beachhead secured ( spanning 1974-06-26 to 1974-11-29 ) it will be easier to build further disk images for earlier and later points in time. I now have the source [J17,SYS] compiling (assembling) and loading correctly - but I had to borrow the COMCSS and the OUTER from [K17,SYS] and set the VODcoder voice device count to zero. There are numerous not so subtle differences in the software over the two decades - so that a Digital Curator ( the Time Lord ) has to find a compatible selection of files to place in each disk kit.

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

Thank you @bgbaumgart, that sounds great! I mainly wanted to start a discussion. Maybe you already have a clear picture of some points in time that are highlights in SAIL history. Certainly I expect there is some patchwork necessary to make a working kits. I'm ready to put my money where my mouth is by doing some of that work. (I tried to make a consistent 8.01 monitor source kit, but the 1974 tool set wasn't able to assemble it.)