22 Dec
2011
22 Dec
'11
4:36 p.m.
On 2011 Dec 22, at 3:10 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Pontus <pontus at
update.uu.se> wrote:
I didn't know anything about the Recomp-II before either. There is a
brochure in the bitsavers directory:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/autonetics/recomp/
that presents an overview of the machine, and the pics directory has
some great photos showing the internals.
Desk size, solid-state, disk-based-memory, targetted at engineering-
type problems. In a class kind of like the vacuum-tube, drum-memory
Bendix G15, I'd say.
I wonder how much design influence the Recomp-II may have had on the
Minuteman GC (D-17B), looks like there could have been some
continuance there.
On 12/22/2011 06:46 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Neither. Others here have been discussing that it's a Recomp disk (a
system I know nothing about). A DEC DF32 would have many fewer heads
and a very thick (6mm? 8mm?) platter. AFAIK, all RK disks have a
linear positioner.
Someone did an impressive job of destroying this to make it look
"pretty"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/300640339205
What disk is that? DF32 or some kind of RK?