12 Aug
2019
12 Aug
'19
1:55 p.m.
Pierre,
I would suggest that as you haven't seen one in ages, the price reflects the rarity
and the vendor is hoping for a rich collector to buy it.
I don't know off hand of anyone who uses one. I know that the 4341 at LCM uses
emulated DASD as does the ICL 2900 at TNMOC in the UK which I think has some EDS300 drives
https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8314/7939054098_08c37818fe_b.jpg
which look almost identical to the CDC drive on E-Bay, there are a few more pics here
https://hiveminer.com/Tags/bletchleypark%2Cicl
There are people using smaller exchangeable drives such as DEC RL01 and RL02 drives, and
the similar drives on the IBM1130 and IBM1800 but those are a totally different ball
game...
Dave
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Subject: Control Data 9766 drive on epay
Hi list,
Just came across this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Computing-CDC-Magnetic-Peripherals-
Control-Data-9766-Storage-
Module/143351908424?hash=item2160708848:g:3yEAAOSw1oJdTo9u
Haven't seen one listed in years. The price lets me assume that this offer
addresses customers that may use these drives in a production environment or
so...
I am not aware of museums or hobbyists who have such drives currently in a
functional state to read and write from and to 80MB (CDC 9762) or 300MB
(CDC 9766) disk packs. Maybe the CHM? ... not taking into consideration the
CHM activities related to the Xerox disk cartidge (2315-equivalent) software
archive project.
Anybody out there? Would be interesting to know.
Best regards,
Pierre
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