[Coco] LIF util for OS-9?

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Yikes

I remember those old HP tape drive computers. I still did like HP Basic though. Wrote a lot of 
test software using the HP computers. 

james

On 1 Nov 2011 at 20:05, Willard Goosey wrote:


> Yesterday I spent over 4 hours reverse-engineering HP's old LIF

> filesystem.  Then I discovered a great reference about it on the

> web. ;-)  

> 

> Another example of "An hour in the library can save you a week in the

> laboratory."  http://www.hp9845.net/9845/projects/hpdir

> 

> (In brief, LIF is a simple disk or random-block tape filesystem that

> lots of old HP hardware used before FAT took over the universe.)

> 

> In my defense, I had fun, and the last time I wondered about this the

> web had NO pages giving the technical description of LIF.

> 

> Anyway, as an industrial, real-time OS I find it hard to believe that

> there wasn't already an OS-9 program to read/write LIF disks, Although

> I'd be willing to accept that there was never a CoCo version.

> 

> So, would anybody be interested in such a program, and be willing to

> help test it by feeding it disks from a wide variety of old HP gear?

> 

> Willard

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