15 Jan
2010
15 Jan
'10
3:37 p.m.
At 9:46 AM -0500 1/15/10, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
>Allison wrote:
>>The machines that used these are basically gone. The machines and
>>drives that are still around are likely to be in the hands of
>>collectors like us, or else in the stockpiles of resellers. I
>>know I have a nice small collection for my PDP-11's.
>>Zane
>
>Amazing.. I have a pile of sub 1gb drives like RZ's in the 50-600mb
>range. Must be a
>local thing.
>Allison
Allison, think about where you live. :-) Except for the stash of NIB
RZ25's in my garage they're rare as hens teeth around here. Sort of
like how PDT-11's are ultra-rare around here (I do have one), but
common for you.
Likewise! But most of my SCSI drives are the 2 GB
Seagate ST32550N.
Jerome, let me guess, they're out of old Sun workstations? That's
where my stash of those is from. These are my primary drive for
PDP-11's, but I also have a small stash of 100MB and 200MB drives
from IBM PC's. I cleaned a guy out at a swap meet
that had scrapped
a load of PS/2's about 12 years ago, but had saved the
drives.
Sadly/thankfully the swap meet is gone, and *ALL* of my junk dealer
contacts have dried up in the past few years. Of course only one of
my collection of Alpha's actually came from locally, and a fair
amount of my DEC gear was purchased through a dealer. The other
thing is, anymore I really don't have the money to spend on this junk.
Can anyone suggest if this will work under Windows XP?
I can't, though I think it would work under Linux. I've used Linux
and Solaris for reading PDP-11 SCSI drives.
Zane
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