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echo: mbse
to: Sean Dennis
from: Vince Coen
date: 2015-07-16 21:56:38
subject: MBSE and Pi 2

Hello Sean!

Thursday July 16 2015 12:05, you wrote to me:

 > Hello Vince,

 > 16 Jul 15 14:53, you wrote to me:

 VC>> Some use a hard drive using a Sata interface.

 > To boot off of a Raspberry Pi, you need to use a SD or microSD card
 > (depending on model), unless they've hacked the CPU to boot off of a
 > drive connected to the GPIO, as far as I know.  I've never heard of
 > anyone doing that myself.

 > Sadly, since there's no good DOS emulator for the RPi, I won't be
 > using one for the BBS.  My users love their DOS doorgames. :)

Went to Maplins today and thay do not know of any hardware addon that supports
a Sata drive (even just for data, e.g., /home)

So I will pass on it as well.


Vince

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