On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:47:04 pm cctalk-request at
classiccmp.org wrote:
Ethan Wrote ..
You don't have to pull the drives - the DB25
connector on the back of
your pedestal is a DEC-standard way of externally cabling RX02s - it
was done the same way with the table-top RX02 shell for the MINC-11.
If you get your 11/73 together, you could aquire or make a cable to go
from the RXV21 to a DB25, then use a DB25-to-DB25 cable from the 11/73
to the back of your DECmate pedestal. ?No removal required.
Really I was wondering about that connector. Sorry for the ignorance. I guess
I better read up on this. This could be quite workable. Thank you very much
for this tip.
Personally, I maintain an older box with a 5.25"
floppy that reads and
writes RX50s just fine. ?Haven't had occasion to fire it up lately, so
I should probably do that to see if the heads have glued down to the
platters or if the CMOS battery as died. ?It's an old 486DX2/66 VLB
box - too old to run a modern OS, but powerful enough to run an OS
capable of capturing diskette images and squirting them over an
Ethernet card to something "modern" for burning and archiving.
I will have to read up on the archives. I was not so sure if the drives were
interchangable. I have a couple old servicable PC's around here. Certainly I
can explore this intriging option.
Good tips ... Very Helpful Thank You :-)
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