Wanted: RA81/RA82 Disk Platter

From: Steve Jones <classiccmp_at_crash.com>
Date: Mon Nov 18 12:47:00 2002

> I've got one, but it's occupying a place of honor in my collection.
> The rest are sitting in my RA-82, which I'm not about to take apart.
> These things are hard to come by, [...]

About twelve years ago a friend and I were poking around MITs Surplus
Property Office. Amongst all the cool "junque" was a pair of RP06
drives and some disk packs.

With apologies now to the poor sods wanting an RP06 to hook up to
their KS10 or something, I bought one of the disk packs for $5 or
something and took it back to the office. I think I was able to
deconstruct the whole thing with just hand tools. Resulted in a nice
supply of 14" platters for gifts and wall art.

In fact just yesterday I was using one of those platters to explain
to someone what went on inside the Seagate ST-4051 she was holding,
and to show the progression of storage technology...

If you really needed a 14" platter for display, look around for a
bad RL01/02 disk pack, there's one platter in each pack. Much easier
than trying to bust open an HDA...

--Steve.
Received on Mon Nov 18 2002 - 12:47:00 GMT