[Coco] LIF util for OS-9?

[Steven Hirsch]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Mark Marlette wrote:


>

> Yep, we had them at work. Great in their day!!!!


About 15 years ago, someone gave me a complete system with two shelves 
worth of documentation binders.  I even had the IEEE-488 interface printer 
that took two men and a boy to lift :-).

The 5MB hard disk drive was a floor-standing unit on wheels. It was the 
size of a small high-efficiency boiler and weighed almost as much.  Come 
to think of it, it sounded like the boiler as well!

It came with cross-assemblers and Pascal cross-compilers for every 
70s-early-80s microprocessor under the sun.  Unfortunately, I had 
emulation pods only for 8080 and 8086.

About four years ago, the wife said it had to go :-(.  In truth, I haven't 
missed it much.  There are cross-tools available for Linux (although I 
don't think any of them cover the Fairchild F8!) and my little Digiview 
18ch USB logic analyzer far exceeds the specs of the HP.

Steve




> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com>

> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

> Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 6:34:35 AM

> Subject: Re: [Coco] LIF util for OS-9?

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> On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, 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. ;-)

>

> My old HP64000 development system used that format for its diskettes.

> Anyone remember those beasts?

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