10 May
2020
10 May
'20
6:12 p.m.
If you have the version of the RL02 that can be
jumpered for either
RL01 or RL02 use, yes. I've seen people put switches on a plate under
the lid (over the old brush area) so that you dismount an RL02K, flip
the switches, mount an RL01K, then read it. One of the tricks is to
be sure to write-protect the RL01 pack in a modified RL02.
That is a good idea. A DPDT switch could flip to RL01 and engage the
write protect switch since I forget to do that. A lot.
Yep. I got an RL01 in 1985 to use with an RL8A and my
PDP-8/a, then
it came in handy in 1987 when I got a gig where I needed my own PDP-11
to code at home and the RL01 was perfect for the boot volume (I
borrowed an RL02 from my boss for the customer data volume). Plenty
of room for the OS and my code.
Same here. I ran a pdp11/03 at home in college and upgraded from RX01's
to an RL01. The speed was amazing and when I got a second one and an
11/23+ cpu I could run RSX11M and Decnet to connect to the school's
network.
Still they are a bit tempremental: My current pair of drives give a
different count of errors even though I have tuned the amps to proper
values on both of them. Bringing the value up more makes the errors go
down, maybe I should just crank em up.
But that will probably screw up writes. Hm.