Curt Vendel needs RK05 drive on east coast

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Mon Jun 2 18:20:00 2003

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> > The more important question is what machine and OS was used to write
> > the disk packs? The RK05 needs a UNIBUS or OMNIBUS controller, so at
> > least PDP-8, PDP-11 or a VAX comes in question. The RM05 is a MASSBUS
> > drive. MASSBUS (e.g. via a UNIBUS - MASSBUS controller) can be found
> > on larger PDP-11s, VAXen and PDP-10 / DECSYSTEM 10 / 20 machines.
>
> Knowing Atari, there tapes were most definitely written on a PDP-11
> system.

Or a VAX, since there are numerous mentions of the VAX systems being
used by Atari. Of course, we're not talking about /tapes/, we're
talking about RM05 disk packs!

I just hope whoever ends up trying to read the disk packs knows what
they're doing. It'd be a real shame if they managed to crash the drives
and ruin the disk packs.

-brian.
Received on Mon Jun 02 2003 - 18:20:00 BST