8 Mar
2009
8 Mar
'09
5:11 a.m.
Just spotted this on comp.sys.dec:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320347786935
Looks like an amazing item for some lucky soul. Just wish I wasn't in
the UK, bit of a long drive to pick up.
Toby
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8 Mar
8 Mar
2:39 p.m.
From: "Tobias Russell" <toby at coreware.co.uk>
Just spotted this on comp.sys.dec:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320347786935
Looks like an amazing item for some lucky soul. Just wish I wasn't in
the UK, bit of a long drive to pick up.
Toby
If you get it, I've got one disk pack that will fit :)
Jim. (also in the UK)
3:19 p.m.
Jim Beacon wrote:
From: "Tobias Russell" <toby at coreware.co.uk>
You do know how big these are!? Pretty cool though.
Cheers,
Pontus.
Just spotted this on comp.sys.dec:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320347786935
Looks like an amazing item for some lucky soul. Just wish I wasn't in
the UK, bit of a long drive to pick up.
Toby
If you get it, I've got one disk pack that will fit :)
Jim. (also in the UK)
3:52 p.m.
Yep, but I would make the space. Alas though the logistics of getting it
across the Atlantic are too great so I'll have to keep dreaming of such
things.
Out of interest any fellow DEC collectors got an RP series disk on any
of their machines? The last ones I saw was about 20 years ago on an
11/40.
Toby
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 20:19 +0100, Pontus wrote:
Jim Beacon wrote:
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From: "Tobias Russell" <toby at coreware.co.uk>
You do know how big these are!? Pretty cool though.
Cheers,
Pontus.
Just spotted this on comp.sys.dec:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320347786935
Looks like an amazing item for some lucky soul. Just wish I wasn't in
the UK, bit of a long drive to pick up.
Toby
If you get it, I've got one disk pack that will fit :)
Jim. (also in the UK)
4:16 p.m.
I have a couple of CDC 9766s on my 11/70. I also have a couple of
RP06s that will probably go on my 2065 once it's restored. You can
see them at http://web.mac.com/ggs17.
TTFN - Guy
On Mar 8, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Tobias Russell wrote:
Yep, but I would make the space. Alas though the
logistics of
getting it
across the Atlantic are too great so I'll have to keep dreaming of
such
things.
Out of interest any fellow DEC collectors got an RP series disk on any
of their machines? The last ones I saw was about 20 years ago on an
11/40.
Toby
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 20:19 +0100, Pontus wrote:
Jim Beacon wrote:
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From: "Tobias Russell" <toby at coreware.co.uk>
You do know how big these are!? Pretty cool though.
Cheers,
Pontus.
Just spotted this on comp.sys.dec:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320347786935
Looks like an amazing item for some lucky soul. Just wish I
wasn't in
the UK, bit of a long drive to pick up.
Toby
If you get it, I've got one disk pack that will fit :)
Jim. (also in the UK)
5:15 p.m.
Tobias Russell wrote:
Yep, but I would make the space. Alas though the
logistics of getting it
across the Atlantic are too great so I'll have to keep dreaming of such
things.
Out of interest any fellow DEC collectors got an RP series disk on any
of their machines? The last ones I saw was about 20 years ago on an
11/40.
Toby
The local computer club has RP06 and RP07 that was connected to a
DECsystem-20, but they have not been running for many years.
/P
7:09 p.m.
We're running our 2065 at the PDP Planet site off an RP06. An interesting experience,
to say the least. -- Ian
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Yep, but I would make the space. Alas though the logistics of getting it
across the Atlantic are too great so I'll have to keep dreaming of such
things.
Out of interest any fellow DEC collectors got an RP series disk on any
of their machines? The last ones I saw was about 20 years ago on an
11/40.
Toby
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 20:19 +0100, Pontus wrote:
Jim Beacon wrote:
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From: "Tobias Russell" <toby at coreware.co.uk>
You do know how big these are!? Pretty cool though.
Cheers,
Pontus.
Just spotted this on comp.sys.dec:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320347786935
Looks like an amazing item for some lucky soul. Just wish I wasn't in
the UK, bit of a long drive to pick up.
Toby
If you get it, I've got one disk pack that will fit :)
Jim. (also in the UK)
7:20 p.m.
Ian King wrote:
We're running our 2065 at the PDP Planet site off
an RP06. An interesting
experience, to say the least. -- Ian
Please continue.
I wish I'd paid more attention when the DEC service guy was doing PM.
I assume it's massbus, which means (i'm out of my depth here) there is
a ribbon cable from the drive to a controller which in turn connects
to the backplane?
just curious about how it's connected and how you went about making
it operational.
and it runs 24x7 now? how often do you do PM and who does it?
-brad
11:20 p.m.
On Sunday 08 March 2009, Brad Parker wrote:
Ian King wrote:
Not quite a ribbon cable... "internal" massbuss cables are a set of 3,
40 pin ribbon cables, and the external one is a fairly thick (1" or so)
cable, probably 120 pins just like the internal cable (though I haven't
pulled one apart to check). This would connect to a multi-board
massbus controller in the machine.
Oh, and it uses three-phase power (as do all the RP disk drives). The
RP06 isn't too bad, power wise, it only is rated to use 12A at 208V 3
phase operating current: http://computer-refuge.org/dec-pics/rp06.html
Pat
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We're running our 2065 at the PDP Planet site
off an RP06. An
interesting experience, to say the least. -- Ian
Please continue.
I wish I'd paid more attention when the DEC service guy was doing PM.
I assume it's massbus, which means (i'm out of my depth here) there
is a ribbon cable from the drive to a controller which in turn
connects to the backplane?
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