PET: Info on MicroTech PETDISK II and Madison Z-RAM

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:44:23PM -0400, Dave Dunfield wrote: Wow! I _really_ wanted one of those in 1981. I never had docs or software, but I tried to get our local Science museum to go with them (since a 2040 dual 5.25" drive was well over $2000, new, and they _had_ compatible 8" drives from some other project). Coincidentally, it was one of these _exact_ 8" mechanisms I had with me at Dayton that I traded (plus $35 and a Cherry Keyboard) for my first PDP-8/L (and its partial brother for parts). I got the bare drive as "payment" for helping the museum research options for how to use them (they had half a cabinet of them). Do you have the resources to make a soft copy of its EPROM? I seriously doubt it's on funet. I really wish I had something to share with you. I think even in the day, all I had were brochures from the company, not manuals, but that was 20+ years ago and on the small chance I still have them, they are 12,000 miles away. I can look when I get home. I might even know which box to start in... -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 14-Sep-2004 22:00 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -55.9 F (-48.9 C) Windchill -93.2 F (-69.59 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 15 kts Grid 009 Barometer 679.6 mb (10639. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html