DEC RM05 mountings

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 13:24 -0600, Mike Cesari wrote: Aha - I think you might be on to something there. the chap who actually knows about this system hasn't touched it since it was dismantled ten years ago, so his memory's naturally a little hazy, and I'm not a DEC person at all! Actually it's a pretty good challenge - the system was *totally* dismantled and spread over several rooms, so we've done well to get it all reassembled and (nearly) all the bits found. Currently we're missing two door hinges and a little bit of plastic trim from the rack front that attaches with velcro-like pads, but we seem to have located everything else. The CPU seemed to fire up OK after we'd tested the power supplies, but we need the front panel key before we can check operation properly (luckily that's at someone's house and not lost in storage). Whether the drives are still operational after ten years of non-use is another matter (all sound deadening / filters have naturally all decayed). The system was operated by Shell and provided a multi-user document system to about 40 users, complete with a primitive form of hyperlinking - and apparently was totally network-aware and could hook up with other such systems across a WAN to share information. Would be interesting to get it booting (we've got all the disk packs, including engineer tests, and those have all been in sealed storage so should be OK still) I'll have to hunt out a 'scrap' disk pack to try initially in case anything lets go in a big way (worst case we've got sealed original- stock packs so could sacrifice one of those) cheers for the pointer - think you're spot-on with the RM03 theory! Jules