My Collection

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Apr 13 13:41:17 2001

--- Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com> wrote:
> >Marian Capel wrote:
>
> > PDP8/F with TU56 and DSD440
> > PDP8/A with TU56 and RL01
>
> Jerome Fine replies:
>
> Also I am really surprised that DEC made an RL01 controller for the PDP8.

The RL8A. I got one back in college because I couldn't find an RK8E for
even twice the price, and RL01 drives were going for <$100 (plus shipping,
natch). It maps the 5Mb disk to two primary virtual devices and to a third,
smaller, slower virtual device. There is also an RL02 handler which maps the
10Mb to, I think, five virtual devices, but I've never run it.

There is also an optional RL02 controller for the DECmate I, but I've never
seen it. My DECmate has the floppy controller and a single cable (DC37->DB25),
but there is a Y cable that will let you run two sets of RX02 drives. You can
even fit both sets in the DECmate pedestal, but I've never bothered to try. I
have a couple of table-top RX02 enclosures that do nicely.

> Does anyone on the list run RT-11 still other than Megan Gentry?
> Do you tinker with the operating system code at all? Does anyone
> care about the RT-11 Operating System?

Not lately, but I used to. I never tinkered much with the OS, just wrote
some stuff in MACRO and played the games.

-ethan



__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Received on Fri Apr 13 2001 - 13:41:17 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:33:26 BST