On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Henk Gooijen <henk.gooijen at hotmail.com> wrote:
I have an 11/05 which has a Perkin-Elmer drive just
like the one you
describe.
In the bottom is a fixed (non-removable platter) and in the top you can load
an "RL-style" cartridge. This is from memory, the system is in the old house
It's been over 10 years since I gave the drive I had a new home. It's entirely
possible that it was badged Perkin-Elmer (both starting with "P", after all. I
got it from a friend who was moving and never did anything with it, so about
all I remember for certain is that it was at least as large as an RL02 (there's
a chance it was taller or had an external PSU), and the body was black-painted
steel (not brushed aluminum or plated steel). I don't even recall if
the faceplate
was white or black or what.
PS. RL01 cartridges are not brown, but grey. RL02 are
as you said blue.
I hate to disagree with you, but mine look just like the ones at the
bottom of this page...
http://www.pdp-11.nl/peripherals/disk/rl-info.html
In person (i.e., with better lighting), the accent parts are a dark,
chocolate brown.
-ethan