Obsolete media (was: Whats the screwiest thing you collect?)

From: Enrico Badella <enrico.badella_at_softstar.it>
Date: Mon Nov 29 03:03:31 1999

Megan wrote:
>
> Unless there is no equivalent... I've got the exact problem with the
> DECsystem-10 I got earlier this year... it came with two RP06 drives.
> They are 3-phase drives. We don't yet have three phase power (or a
> close approximation of it), so cannot run the drives. Without the
> drives, we cannot even load the microcode for the machine, so it is
> a very large paper-weight.

I don't think you can hack the RP06 to run on single phase as you could do
on a VAX 6xxx.

> I've been looking of a non-three-phase replacement for the drives, but
> we still would need three-phase to get the data off the disks I have.

If you come up with one please post on the list.
 
> We have, however, been getting all the data off the tapes so as not
> to lose it.
>
> It would be great if there was a massbus interface for a more recent
> tape drive, and the same for a disk... it would be neat to be able to
> have a DAT tape acting like a TU77 or something supported by the machine,
> and a couple of SCSI or even IDE disks acting as RM03 or RP06 disks...

Like the QBUS, UNIBUS adapter to IDE drives; I'm gonna look at it since
all the RDxx on my PDPs are failing.

But you would still have the problem of getting the stuff out of the
original disks; but having a Massbus-2-SCSI adapter would be nice especially
to avoid the cost of RP06 or RM03 media.

Megan, if you ever think to through away your 10 ;-) because of lack of
three phase power, please tell me; I have a friend that works in a shipping
company (real ships) that can get me a very cheap price for one o those big
containers and now that I have an IBM 4381 I have access to a 50KVA line
8-))))))))))))))))))))

e.

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