On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:26:16 am cctalk-request at
classiccmp.org wrote:
Dwight wrote ..
Although, I'm not the one to help you read your
disk, there
are others here that are setup to handle DEC media.
I thought I'd write to ask why you were looking for a SA900
disk drive? Most applications use SA800/801's. Not being a
DEC person, I'd not know about DEC applications.
Still, a SA800 can be wired to look like a SA900. It is just
a different connector.
I have a machine that does use SA900's and I've been watching
for one for some time.
Ahh well I was trying to get two of the 851's that were up at the Vintage
Computer Market recently. The rest of my E-bay Thrashing has been of the same
variety and knowing I can hack them up to do my archiving. I really messed up
a year ago and did not buy two perfectly working DSD440's when I could had
them cheap. The funny thing is that I have RX02's here. But they are part of
a semi mint Decmate I have. I really did not want to pull them out to do this
work rather leaving them in the cart as they are. And RX02's drove me nuts
when they were new. I always prefered the DSD440's and Shugart drives.
Same thing goes for the Rainbows I have. I really am loathe to pull out the RX
drives in them either. I suppose that I could archive the RX50 stuff using
the Rainbows. ??
Thats another thing I have a pile of stuff for .. Rainbows since I have a
weird affinity for them. Maybe its unlike my 11/70 or 11/45 wanting .. They
don't take up 1/2 a basement. :-)
I am rambling. Sorry for the "Winded" posts.
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