On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 10:10 AM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was able to locate and correspond with the original author, and he doesn’t recall creating custom disks or disk images. Hmmm.
The original author might not have created a custom disk or disk image, he might instead have created a custom PF device driver, then made a bootable "PF" disk the normal way using PIP or whatever. I have a vague idea that RT-11 does this by copying a part of the PF device driver to the boot block, then arranging for the rest of the device driver to reside at a particular place on the disk (where the boot block code expects to find it). The magazine article referred to the need for a custom PF driver, did it not? Technically the result could be considered a "custom" disk but when you're dealing with decades-old memories the distinction between "custom" and "standard" might apply more to the procedure used rather than the end result. In other words, I might recall editing a disk image with a hex editor as making a "custom" disk, but if I had produced exactly the same result using standard OS tools I might not.remember this as being "custom" at all. -ken