PDP-11/34a (was: NYT on...)

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Sep 20 15:20:32 2000

--- Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org> wrote:
> OOPS !!!
> Actually should've been 32KW (64MB) of memory.

Still itchy on that "m" key I see. :-)

> > I wish I had a working RK05f... (I ruined the only 'f' I ever saw as a
> > teenager - I didn't know what I was doing and I moved the fixed pack when
> > the drive was still turning. :-P I still have the platter as a reminder.)

> >
>
> Clean the heads and install a new RK05 pack and it'll probably work.

That was 1984. The drive was disposed of _long_ ago. I did look at the
heads - There was more than a little oxide on the upper head; it looked
like a rusty rasp had been drawn across it.

I destroyed a 12-sector f pack. I still have the 16-sector pack that came
with the drive when that company bought it (but they used PDP-11s, not PDP-8s,
so it sat on a shelf the entire time they owned the unit). I never have been
able to see what's on this pack; the only 16-sector pack I own (I don't have
an RK8E, just an RK11C and RKV11D).

Mostly, I've used RL01/RL02 drives on OMNIBUS/Unibus/Qbus machines that didn't
have an MSCP controller. Never had an RL drive die on me. Got plenty of spare
parts when it eventually does happen.

-ethan


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