10 Jul
2015
10 Jul
'15
9:02 a.m.
See page 2-8 for a view of the packing configuration.
http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/tifftopdf.pl/pdp8docs/ek-0rx02…
<http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/tifftopdf.pl/pdp8docs/ek-0rx02-tm-001.pdf>
Jerry Weiss
jsw at ieee.org
On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Jerry Weiss <jsw at
ieee.org> wrote:
Make sure the doors are shut. I used to tape them. Remove any floppies you care about.
Some of the non-DEC 8? drives used to come with a cardboard blank.
But these were double sided disks and the blank was meant (I believe)
to prevent the heads from banging against each other.
Jerry Weiss
jsw at ieee.org
On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Noel Chiappa
<jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
That seems logical; stepper motors are to some extent self-locking.
paul
From: devin davison
I was told to lock the heads in the rx01 and rx02
drives.
Err, I think we told you to lock the heads the RL0x's, not RX0x's; the former
use large rigid packs, the latter are 8" floppy drives. AFAIK, there is no
need to lock RX heads when moving them - there is nothing in the manual about
RX drives being shipped from DEC with the heads locks.