24 Mar
2006
24 Mar
'06
1:36 p.m.
In article <m1FMsW3-000IyWC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
Why bother to run a classic computer at all, then?
Seriously, the drives
are as much a part of the system as the CPU is.
I hear what you're saying, but the drives are also the part that's
hardest to replace. Seriously, I see PDP-11 CPU cards and controller
cards out on ebay all the time but rarely do I see an actual RL01
drive or the disk packs. Thankfully I have about 25 disk packs, so
they are not the limiting factor.
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