13 Oct
2015
13 Oct
'15
1:46 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Henk Gooijen <henk.gooijen at hotmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Henk Gooijen
<henk.gooijen at hotmail.com> wrote:
I'd love to get one complete RK11-C ...
anybody? :-)
I have an RK11-C but it did not come with a panel.
Now you know where you can leave it behind for a good old retirement :-) You don't happen to get that RK11-C from an eBay
auction some 8 - 9,
maybe 10 years ago?
I did not. I've had it since August, 1984, and I got it from Software
Results shortly before starting to work there. It (along with a
stripped PDP-8/a and a DataSystems 310 desk) came with a pair of RK05
drives: one RK05J and one RK05F (but no power supply) that I wanted to
use with the PDP-8. I'm told the whole pile came from Ohio State
Surplus sometime in 1983 or so.
Sadly, I mangled the RK05F due to youth and inexperience. I might
still have the front cover for that RK05F in a box of parts, but I'm
pretty sure the rest of the drive got stripped for parts 30 years ago
to repair RK05J drives (if I knew then what I know now, I assure you
that events would have unfolded differently, but I had no docs and no
experience... then I had a series of "educational experiences" with
this hardware and am wiser now). I only ever saw one other RK05F in
the wild, FWIW.
I remember (just) one RK11-C passing by on eBay, and
that was when I
still worked at Oc? training centre, so at least 8 years ago. It sold for
~ $50 (IIRC). Will never forget that I let that one go! :-(
That's an amazing price just for the pile of FLIPCHIPs.
-ethan