My wife did actually help me put those 100+ pound RK05 drives
into the big rack. A few days later I had to call her in to watch
as I had RSTS running and I had the cover off one of the RK05s
and the read / write heads were moving in and out as I ran a
program I wrote to exercise the heads and move them to various
sectors.
> nah to scare my wife all i'd need to do is to get her to help me
> clean the
> cobwebs out of the big iron :D
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ashley Carder" <wacarder_at_usit.net>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 2:23 AM
> Subject: RE: Real PDP11 model question
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>
> >>
> >> I suppose what I would want to know is what can I run RSTS from that
> >> won't scare my wife, and
> >> would look sort of like a PC (box only)
> >
> > Scare your wife? I can tell you how to do that. She used to think I
> > was a bit extreme because I had 7 PCs in various places in the house
> > and in my workshop, and I made a big deal of wiring every room with
> > two ethernet connections when we built our new home 3 years ago.
> >
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