28 Nov
1999
28 Nov
'99
10:12 a.m.
<Unless there is no equivalent... I've got the exact problem with the
<DECsystem-10 I got earlier this year... it came with two RP06 drives.
<They are 3-phase drives. We don't yet have three phase power (or a
<close approximation of it), so cannot run the drives. Without the
<drives, we cannot even load the microcode for the machine, so it is
<a very large paper-weight.
<
<I've been looking of a non-three-phase replacement for the drives, but
<we still would need three-phase to get the data off the disks I have.
Why not a rotary phase converter, not the most efficient but buildable.
That would allow running the drive off a single phase ckt that is heavey
enough to take the load.
Allison