Honeywell 316s? Re: Honeywell Level 6 Mainframe

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sat Feb 12 22:40:55 2000

At 06:56 PM 2/12/00 -0800, Al wrote:
>"What does the formatter box look like?"
>
>Pertec formatters are about 3" high very boring looking rack mounted
>boxes. They may have been used with an internal 2315 style disc interface
>in the 316. The drives themselves are 2.5 mb (or 5 if there's a fixed
>disc underneath the removable) 2315 style devices.

  OK, I'll show my ignorance, what's a 2315 style device or 2315
interface? I wonder if the formatters might be attached to the drives?

 If they're the original
>Pertec Blue, I would suspect someone would want them for their Altair 8800b's

   No, these aren't floppy drives. It looks like these use a removeable
platter that's about 14" across. If they had been Pertec floppy drives I
would have grabbed them! The whole box is about the same size as the
Honeywell but about 2 inches taller. Roughly 18" w x 15" h x 20" deep.

   Joe
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Received on Sat Feb 12 2000 - 22:40:55 GMT