DEC RX02-PA?

[William Donzelli]

Options, options, options...

DEC was was good at options.

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Will

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
> On 2015-08-09 18:14, William Donzelli wrote:
>>
>> The pedestal RX02s are around, but pretty rare. I think they were part
>> of a PDP-8 based word processor (VT78?), and/or part of the smaller
>> PDT11 systems.
>
>
> You can easily google pictures of the VT78, and it has the same two RX01 (or
> if it is RX02) side by side as you could expect elsewhere.
>
> The PDT-11/150 at least have drives that resembles the ones on ebay, but the
> cabinet is different (if you can even say the PDT-11/150 have a cabinet).
>
> No, the ebay listing is still a weird beast, to say the least.
>
>         Johnny
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Will
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2015-08-09 17:48, Ben Sinclair wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I found this on eBay, and I'm not sure what it is:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-DIGITAL-RX02-COMPUTER-SYSTEM-2-FLOPPY-DRIVES-UNTESTED-T27-/181827282211?hash=item2a55c02523
>>>>
>>>> I haven't seen RX-02s in a case like this before, and some Googling
>>>> doesn't seem to reveal much of anything.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what this is exactly?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That is definitely not an RX02 in the common sense of the word.
>>> I would like to see a picture where you can see that Digital sticker in a
>>> larger context, so I can see that it really sits on that cabinet.
>>>
>>> The whole cabinet do not even look in the style of DEC cabinets. Very
>>> strange beast. But who knows. DEC might have built some off one-off or
>>> something for a special purpose or customer.
>>>
>>> (Not to mention that RX02 is not a computer to start with...)
>>>
>>>          Johnny
>>>
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> --
> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol