Valuable MicroVAX-II (?)

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Dec 17 18:57:01 2002

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Don Maslin wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >
> > > As has been pointed out, someone is most likely after the 3 RD54's.
> > > The thing to remember is that there are still systems being used
> > > commercially, or by the Government that use these drives. The cost
> > > of qualifying different hardware to move to SCSI far outweighs the
> > > cost of obtaining RD54's.
> >
> > That certainly makes sense, though I had never thought of the RD54 as
> > being worth much, since after all, it is MFM.
>
> I suspect what you really mean is that they use the ST-412/506
> interface, but as a matter of fact they RLL very nicely given the proper
> controller.

Of course :P

-Toth
Received on Tue Dec 17 2002 - 18:57:01 GMT

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