11 Jan
2007
11 Jan
'07
10:30 p.m.
On 1/11/07, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:
Well, I used my SMT hot air gun and pulled a few
DC005's off a spare
board (it worked pretty well - just never thought to use it for
through-hole). I put the DC005 in the dead RQDX3 and it appears to work
fine.
Cool.
RSTS should work on a 20mb drive... he said...
crossing
his fingers (and remembering it ran on 2x RK05's at long ago... :-)
Depends on the version, indeed it should be. The latest version of
RSTS/E I played with when it was contemporary was v9.0 in the late
1980s/early 1990s, to support one of our few remaining RSTS customers
from the late 1980s/early 1980s. It was on an 11/24
w/4xRL02, but I'm
reasonably certain that we only had two packs spinning. We
_might_
have run v10 on that same hardware, but I'm not as certain of that.
We never did move up to the newer/faster/larger PDP-11s there - we
stopped at 11/34s and 11/24s and 11/23s, and we never had a disk
larger than 10MB on any of our PDP-11s. :-/ Made it tough to play
with 2BSD after hours at work.
-ethan