2 Oct
2024
2 Oct
'24
12:06 a.m.
I rue the day I lost an eBay auction. It was a PR photo with a good looking model mounting
a disk in an open drawer of a 2314. If you looked carefully you would see she was holding
a 2311 disk. The 2314 pack was probably too heavy to use for all the repeated takes the
photographer wanted. 😊
2 Oct
2 Oct
2:11 p.m.
New subject: Might be antique computer parts
On Oct 1, 2024, at 8:06 PM, donald
donaldwhittemore.com via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I rue the day I lost an eBay auction. It was a PR photo with a good looking model
mounting a disk in an open drawer of a 2314. If you looked carefully you would see she was
holding a 2311 disk. The 2314 pack was probably too heavy to use for all the repeated
takes the photographer wanted. 😊
Funny.
Drawer? I thought 2314s are top loaders, like the DEC RP03 (which looks about the same
including having a look-alike pack) and the RP04/05/06 series. "Drawer" sounds
like the 3330, or DEC drives like the RL01.
paul
3:01 p.m.
New subject: Might be antique computer parts
On 10/2/24 09:11, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
You spin down the drive, wait a while, pull up on the big
blue handle and roll the drive out of the cabinet. This
reveals the top of the pack. You then lower the cover onto
the pack, twist the handle to jack the pack off the spindle,
and lift it out. Reverse process to load new pack, then roll
drive back into cabinet and flip switch. So, the drive is
essentially a drawer in a cabinet of 9 drives. look up on
google to see what the whole system looked like.
Jon
On Oct 1, 2024, at 8:06 PM, donald
donaldwhittemore.com via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I rue the day I lost an eBay auction. It was a PR photo with a good looking model
mounting a disk in an open drawer of a 2314. If you looked carefully you would see she was
holding a 2311 disk. The 2314 pack was probably too heavy to use for all the repeated
takes the photographer wanted. 😊
Funny.
Drawer? I thought 2314s are top loaders, like the DEC RP03 (which looks about the same
including having a look-alike pack) and the RP04/05/06 series. "Drawer" sounds
like the 3330, or DEC drives like the RL01. 
3:30 p.m.
New subject: Might be antique computer parts
On 02/10/2024 16:01, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 10/2/24 09:11, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
You spin down the drive, wait a while, pull up on the big blue handle
and roll the drive out of the cabinet. This reveals the top of the
pack. You then lower the cover onto the pack, twist the handle to
jack the pack off the spindle, and lift it out. Reverse process to
load new pack, then roll drive back into cabinet and flip switch. So,
the drive is essentially a drawer in a cabinet of 9 drives. look up
on google to see what the whole system looked like.
Jon
There is a nice picture here:-
https://web.archive.org/web/20230822210411/http://history.cs.ncl.ac.uk/anni…
Dave
On Oct 1, 2024, at 8:06 PM, donald
donaldwhittemore.com via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I rue the day I lost an eBay auction. It was a PR photo with a good
looking model mounting a disk in an open drawer of a 2314. If you
looked carefully you would see she was holding a 2311 disk. The 2314
pack was probably too heavy to use for all the repeated takes the
photographer wanted. 😊
Funny.
Drawer? I thought 2314s are top loaders, like the DEC RP03 (which
looks about the same including having a look-alike pack) and the
RP04/05/06 series. "Drawer" sounds like the 3330, or DEC drives like
the RL01. 
20 Oct
20 Oct
4:34 p.m.
New subject: Might be antique computer parts
Finally got the program I had a friend write back in 2009 working. I had it written
specifically because I had this disk.
Shades of watching a 2311 working. 😀
http://www.myimagecollection.com/webpics/exercise.mp4
21 Oct
21 Oct
12:10 a.m.
New subject: Might be antique computer parts
On 2024-10-20 10:34 a.m., Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
Finally got the program I had a friend write back in
2009 working. I had it written specifically because I had this disk.
Shades of watching a 2311 working. 😀
http://www.myimagecollection.com/webpics/exercise.mp4
Now, let's do this in LEGO. :)
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