19 Feb
2003
19 Feb
'03
3:49 a.m.
Owen: the RC25 are DEC's attempt at creating funny things.
They are MSCP disks (connect to UDA50 or KDA50) with an SDI
bus. They are actually two drives in a single coffin- one
winchester drive (13MByte) and a removable cartridge drive,
also 13MB. So, one could back on the winchester to the
removable, and so on.
I have one here.. just no cartridge.
--f
-----Original Message-----
From: Owen Robertson [mailto:univac2@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:26 PM
To: Classic Computer Mailing List
Subject: DEC RC25 Drives
A few weeks ago, I got a rather nice PDP-11/34 (34A, turnkey
front panel)
from a scrap yard. They had two identical systems being used
in some sort of
electronic testing devices. I only got one system because the
other one
looked like it had been hit by a forklift a couple times. It
wasn't in great
shape, so I salvaged some cards from it (CPU, memory, DELUA, drive
controller, UNIBUS utility stuff...).
My system is in very nice shape though. And along with the
CPU, I also got
two RC25 drives, along with controllers and cables. I've
never seen these
before. Can anyone tell me anything about them? They look
like nice drives,
but I've never really heard much about them.
Anyway, this will be my third 11/34. Of the other two, I
still have (and
very much like) one, and one has been passed on to another
list member.
Anyway, more questions on recent acquisitions to come
shortly, I'm sure.
--
Owen Robertson