modern removable media drives

When I was working in the RT-11 development group at Digital, I had a DSD-880. This was an RL02-lookalike and an RX02-lookalike. But where true RX01s and RX02s from Digital didn't actually write formatting information, this unit could. I also had a floppy disk which was mounted on the side of a file cabinet using a large ring magnet (as is found in some DEC disk drives). People always figured it was a bad disk until I took it off the cabinet, put it in the DSD880, formatted it (for real) and then used it under RT before putting it back on the cabinet... It was just fun to see their eyes when I told them it was still usable... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+