1 Feb
1999
1 Feb
'99
6:44 a.m.
John Lawson <jpl15(a)netcom.com> wrote:
Is anyone on the List, in the Southern California
area, interested in a
CDC 9766 350MP top loader, with three disk packs? This unit was attached
This drive is equivalent to (and pack-interchangeable with) the DEC RM05,
but it is not electrically interchangeable with the DEC drive. DEC had
CDC customize the drive interface for use in the RM05.
It NEEDS three-phase power, and a fair amount of it, to run the AC
synchronous spindle motor. This is not something that can easily be
converted to run on single-phase, so don't get the idea that you can
run it in your house or garage.
But they are great drives, and it would be a shame for them to be scrapped.
Eric