DEC machines that can't format a disk (Was: Good Trip/Score Dec

From: Rick Murphy <rmurphy_at_itm-inst.com>
Date: Mon May 20 21:46:17 2002

At 09:01 PM 5/20/02 -0500, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
> >
> > Given the simplicity of the drive hardware - it *had* to have a servo
> track
> > to position itself - there's no surprise it couldn't low-level format.
> Sort
> > of like most modern disk drives - but you can probably buy a 50 GB IDE
> > drive today for the cost of one RL01 cartridge back then :-(
> >
>
>Umm, you do know that 120Gb IDE hard drives are $120 or less. The trick is
>figuring a way to USE a 120Gb drive in place of a RL02...

Yup. I've never had to buy a RL cartridge, though, so I've no idea how much
they cost.
(All my RL disks were VMS distribution disks recycled onto my PDP-8.)
         -Rick
Received on Mon May 20 2002 - 21:46:17 BST