WTB: 5 1/4" Magneto Optical Cartridges

From: John B <dylanb_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri Feb 18 09:56:44 2000

PDP-8 and other rare mini computers

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: WTB: 5 1/4" Magneto Optical Cartridges


>At 11:16 AM 2/17/00 -0500, John B wrote:
>>I am looking to buy one again now. I would like to back up all this dec
>>software on them. I know the data won't be lost if it goes on one of those
>>drives. I feel bad now because I chucked it in the garbage a couple of
years
>>ago.... It had a carrying case and 12 platters :-(
>
>I'll trade you a couple of MO drives for a PDP 11/20 with 8K of core :-)
>--Chuck
>

Cute Chuck! I got quite a bit of interest for a "straight-11".. more than I
thought. I know you indicated interest in one. When I know how many I will
have total (first week in March) then I will set aside a couple for list
members.. No idea what to trade or how much yet.

But.............................

If you had said DECTape drives then I probably would have taken you up on
it. I can *now* truly appreciate why many dec engineers, field service, and
prior dec employees all call them junk. Many have been guilty of using
Luttig's name in vane... now, me too!

I wonder if TU56s float?

john


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