>Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > Jerome Fine replies:
> > VERY THIN! -); If you have any 5 1/4" FH ESDI drives,
> > that must be about 20 lb. each (well maybe only 10 lb.), then
> > anything less, especially when 2 of any drive can be held in
> > one hand is THIN and LIGHT.
> Well, I have a pair of those in my VaxStation 3200... 5.25" FH drives are
> thin and light when compared with something like an RP07, of course....
Jerome Fine replies:
And I have 3 FH 5 1/4" ESDI Hitachi DK515-78 600 MByte
drives on the PDP-11/83 that I use.
But that is where I draw the line as far as "production" hardware
is concerned. I don't regard a 60 lb. RL02 drive as reasonable
because of BOTH the size and the weight - aside from the fact
that the capacity is only 10 MBytes.
On the other hand, I hope to eventually switch from using those
ESDI drives to a SCSI drive - an ST32550N drive with a
host adapter on both the PDP-11 and the PC so I can move
the same SCSI drive between the two systems and run RT-11
from the same drive either directly on the real PDP-11 hardware
or on the PC under Ersatz-11.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 22:36:00 BST