"Removable" hard drives (was Re: Thoughts -> Re: classiccmp server)

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:09:15PM -0500, Jay West wrote: RC25 anyone?!? (grinning, running and ducking) -ethan (for the DEC-impaired, the RC-25 is/was a fixed/removable platter drive with about 25MB each. You had to mount a cart to spin up the internal platter. I _think_ there was one positioner, so it could be kinda slow. Many people have had problems with its reliability) P.S. - having (re-)aquired a VAX-11/725 a year ago August, I'm looking for an RC-25 cart or two. I used to have several, but they disappeared from the same place that my first VAX vanished from when they went out of business (long story). No hurry... I won't be spinning it up for probably about six months. If I had a "better" disk for it, I'd use it. How much do Unibus SCSI cards go for? :-) -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 05-Oct-2004 02:30 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -51.6 F (-46.5 C) Windchill -83.09 F (-64 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 10.9 kts Grid 039 Barometer 691.6 mb (10191 ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html