9 Aug
2022
9 Aug
'22
7:42 a.m.
I have one that looks slightly different than the one shown earlier
https://w2hx.com/?prefix=x/VintageComp/RL-Drives/
But I could use one or two more, so add me to the list of prospects.
Were there larger cabinets designed to hold these? I can imagine some operations having
dozens of these disk packs and storing them in many linear feet of desktop wire holders
might not be an efficient way to store them.
73 Eugene W2HX
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From: Jonathan Chapman via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 10:12 AM
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Cc: Jonathan Chapman <lists(a)glitchwrks.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Dec rl02 disk pack shelf design
I have a friend who has one of the wire rack RL style pack racks, which looks a lot like
the one pictured. I've thought about having a wireform manufacturer do a run of them.
Aforementioned friend is willing to loan it for dimensional capture/reproduction. Is this
something people would be interested in? If so I can set up a preorder
information-gatherer and get interest numbers.
Final form would probably be stainless wire to avoid having to chrome it. I'd try very
hard to have it made in the USA, but would consider offshore manufacturing if the price
was too high (as is the case with circuit boards, for most of our products/projects).
Thanks,
Jonathan
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On Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 at 06:26, Joshua Rice via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have definitely seen pictures of them stacked edge-on. Since they
were essentially identical physically to the IBM 5440 disk packs
(though formatting would be wildly different), i imagine that might be
a good place to start in regards to existing designs. Alternatively,
it should be trivial to knock one together with some ply and dowels.
https://collection.motat.nz/records/images/xlarge/35979/3a9db5d799ac1f
e3783402cbe0e8a525fcd10503.jpg
Cheers, Josh
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From: "devin davison via cctalk" cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
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Cc: "devin davison" lyokoboy0(a)gmail.com
Sent: Monday, 8 Aug, 2022 At 21:21
Subject: [cctalk] Dec rl02 disk pack shelf design Hello, I have many
rl02 disk packs for my pdp 11/34 and 11/05. I have just been stacking
them upright, but that has not been the safest or the most space
efficient. Were any kinds of shelves made for these disk packs,
perhaps similar to 9 track hanging tape racks? Trying to make things
look more organized too.
Hoping someone here has one and can share a pic, perhaps it is a
design i can duplicate and make with some woodworking tools.
Thanks,
Devin D.