Adding floppy drives to my PDP-11?

Paul Birkel pbirkel at gmail.com
Sun Apr 14 02:17:19 CDT 2019


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>From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Glen Slick via cctalk
>Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2019 2:48 AM
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>Subject: Re: Adding floppy drives to my PDP-11?
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>On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 3:07 PM Charles via cctalk
><cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> What about smaller drives (RX50? RX33?)... can those be interfaced to the
>> 11/23+ Qbus?
>
>Pick up a common as dirt M7555 RQDX3. If you don't have a BA23 with
>the built in distribution board for the M7555 RQDX3, then pick up an
>M9058 distribution board to break out the signals from the M7555
>RQDX3.
>
>For example, this one which is incorrectly listed as an M9056:
>https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-DEC-Digital-Equipment-M9056-5016673-01B1-RQDX-Signal-Dist-Card-Board/153396701812

For more information and roll-your-own instructions, see: http://avitech.com.au/?page_id=645

Malcolm may still have PCBs available; shipping from Australia.

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