6 Apr
2006
6 Apr
'06
10:03 p.m.
On 4/7/06, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
Also -- these guys had 8" floppies attached to
them. Were they
anything special or just the standard RX01/RX02 type drives?
Just standard RX02 guts, but mounted in a pedestal as opposed to the
more common rack-mount side-by-side arrangement.
The controller-end of the pedestal RX02s is the
normal-for-later-RX02-drives DB25 arrangement like the one used with
the MINC-11 (with the same DB25-to-40-pin-Berg transition board
stuck under the fake woodgrain countertop at the top of the pedestal).
The RX278 controller cable is a DC37 to either one DB25 or a
wye-cable to two DB25s (there's room in the pedestal for two complete
RX02 units).
If you really had to, I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to take a BC08
and run it from the RX02 board in the pedestal out to, say, an RXV11
or RX8E, but I think in practice it's not too hard to wire up a
DB25-to-Berg-40 transition board if you can't find an original one.
-ethan