6 Oct
2005
6 Oct
'05
8:34 a.m.
================ VAX730 IDC
R80 121M 31 14 559 dec built; winchester; SMD interface
(RM80 with SMD/Massbus converter)
NO, more accurately the RM80 is an R80 with a Massbus addapter. The
R80 is not an RM80 with something added. And the interface is close to
SMD, but different enough that you can't connect the R80 to an SMD
controller or a normal SMD drive to a 11/730 IDC.
[...]
Floppy
[...]
RX50 400K 10 1 80 5.25" single sided, dual drive
FM encoding
There's no reason at all why the RX50 can't use MFM encoding, and I
thought that's how it was normally used. Certainly the Rainbow uses an
MFM controller.
-tony