28 Jun
2023
28 Jun
'23
2:42 p.m.
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?
Nope, there was a big "multifunction" card that ran the RM80 and RL02
drive. I think it bypassed the Unibus for data which is what allowed the
R80 to run on such a weird little system.
I don't know if it could handle more than one RL02, but the R80 used a
personality module that was basically SMD with the stupid DEC twist and
was the same module that worked on the RM80 (which I still have here,
should dig it out and fire it up. Worked a decade ago...)
But the question would have been why? :-)
Maybe, but can you see a small office running an 11/730
just to get
those particular
Sure, the 11/730 was marketed as an office system, in a cool little
cabinet with the R80 on the bottom, CPU, and a little top loading RL02.
Perfect for the 1980's office. Well until Microvax.
CZ