27 Jul
2009
27 Jul
'09
10:35 a.m.
From: Zane H. Healy
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 10:16 AM
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
> I just stumbled across two RP02 and RP03 disk
drives (2 RP02, 1 RP03) in
> probably repairable condition. We have all cables (power, "bus",
"unit")
> needed to hook the beasts to a RP10 controller of a pdp10. Thinking of
> restoring and connecting them to a Unibus pdp11.
This isn't the answer you want to hear, but if
these had been hooked up to
an RP10, wouldn't it make more sense to arrange for these drives to be used
on a PDP-10 rather than a PDP-11? Unless I'm mistaken the PDP-11 varient
are slightly more common. And yes, I'm saying this even though I *assume*
you do not have a PDP-10.
Since, so far as I know, there is only one person on the planet with RP10
controllers on PDP-10 systems, and those are currently warehoused with no
plans to do anything with them until he retires (in roughly 15 years), the
need to hook these drives to a PDP-10 is vanishingly small.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
(206) 342-2239
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