DEC RC25 Drives

From: Owen Robertson <univac2_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Feb 19 12:05:00 2003

on 2/19/03 11:45 AM, Fred N. van Kempen at Fred.van.Kempen_at_microwalt.nl
wrote:

> Owen: the RC25 are DEC's attempt at creating funny things.

Well, I would call it a success.

> They are MSCP disks (connect to UDA50 or KDA50) with an SDI
> bus. They are actually two drives in a single coffin- one
> winchester drive (13MByte) and a removable cartridge drive,
> also 13MB.

That explains a few things, like the 'Eject' button and the write-protect
switches marked 'Fixed' and 'Removable'. I figured *something* had to be
removable. :-)

> I have one here.. just no cartridge.

How do you tell if there's a cartridge in there or not? I haven't powered
them up yet.

Anyway, maybe I'll luck out and there will be an OS on there. Thanks for the
information.

-- 
Owen Robertson
Received on Wed Feb 19 2003 - 12:05:00 GMT

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