[Coco] LIF util for OS-9?

[Joel Ewy]

On 11/01/2011 09:18 PM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> 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

>


I have an old HP GPIB tape drive that has a 6809 on the controller 
board, FWIW.

JCE


> 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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