3 Sep
2001
3 Sep
'01
12:41 p.m.
On September 1, Bill Pechter wrote:
Actually, DEC's tape drives were abysmal in design
(not counting the
DECtapes which were really reel-to-reel disk drives.
Yes, DECtapes are very cool. DLTs are pretty nice too; they FINALLY
fixed the TK50 after a few iterations! ;)
The RL0x's were pretty slick and the
RK05/6/7's were ok. RM80's needed
the RA81's 400+meg hda to be competitive... The RA81's would've been
nice if the breather glue problem didn't occur.
RLs and RKs (especially RK06/7) are wonderful drives. I've used a
lot of both and I love 'em.
Anybody know if DEC ever made a Qbus RK06/7 controller?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
4 Sep
4 Sep
3:11 a.m.
--- Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> wrote:
RLs and RKs (especially RK06/7) are wonderful
drives. I've used a
lot of both and I love 'em.
My oldest 11/750 shipped with a pair of RK07s - back in the day, you
could put an OS on one, user data on the other.
Anybody know if DEC ever made a Qbus RK06/7
controller?
Not that I ever heard of, but for 18-bit Qbus machines, you could
probably get away with a Qniverter. Dunno about 22-bit systems.
Probably have to roll your own driver, or at least ensure that
the disk buffers were in the low 256K.
-ethan
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