Typically, it would be a box which you can plug the drive cable into
in order to perform various diagnostic test, without the use of a PDP8
or PDP11 (or other). The boxes I have used had a number of switches on
them which would let you perform some test, for example an oscillating
seek test, where you could specify (using the switches) the inner and
outer cylinders...
--tom
At 03:10 PM 2/11/2002 -0600, you wrote:
Is anyone here familiar with a RK05 tester? Any idea
exactly what it is,
and what it is capable of testing? I'm looking into possibly buying one.
-Lawrence LeMay