29 Jun
2023
29 Jun
'23
12:58 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Don't know the 8600. Wasn't the RL02 on the
11/730 actually connected
to a PDP-11 that functioned as a console? Surely no version of VMS ever
fit on a 10M disk, did it?
The 730 does not have a PDP-11 as frontend. It uses the RB730 integrated
disk controller with attachments for the RL02 and R80 drives.
The R80 provides 120MB of storage, enough for a small VMS installation.
And as it's a Unibus machine, you can add more peripherals.
Christian