7 Sep
2010
7 Sep
'10
9:41 a.m.
Mike Loewen [mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us] wrote:
The RRD40 used a two-piece thin caddy with a "lobster claw" insert
which stays in the drive with the CD. I can take a picture if you
like, but this is the drive:
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/VAX/Vax-26L.jpg
I don't know why, but we called the caddy "antlers".
Somewhere or other I have a VS3100 (or MV3100, I forget exactly)
with 3 or 4 RRD40 CDROMs fitted internally. Those are a drive
plus a SCSI interface board. So I'm not sure that the RRD40 is
native SCSI: I suspect that it's whatever the RRD50 was (or close to it)
with an adapter board fitted. (My RRD40 is buried right now so
I'm in no position to open it up and look).
Antonio
