Well the RS11 with no suffix is just the controller but
since yours has a
motor and a "W" serial number it sounds like one of the fixed head disks
for the RF11. I'm guessing that the tube would connect to the air
filtration system. I've not had much luck locating a picture for
comparison. I'll bet you any amount of money if you were to open it you
would find a single platter attached to that motor inside the housing
and a pair of read/write heads.
^^^^^^
*A* pair? It's a fixed head disk of 64 tracks, so I'd expect 64 such heads!
RS03: 64 tracks, 64 sectors/track, 64 words (128 bytes) per sector.
RS04: 64 tracks, 64 sectors/track, 128 words (256 bytes) per sector.
An RS03 actually has 4 spare tracks and a timing track, while the RS04
has 8 spare tracks and a timing track, with (of course) a set of heads for
each track.
And, of course, a zero millisecond seek time.
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