RSX11D disks on EBAY- anyone interested?

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Apr 8 16:48:02 CDT 2021


    > From: Jerry Weiss

    > I always wondered why the RKV11-D was only 16 bit addressable.

The manual (EK-RKV11-OP-001) says: "Since the 11/03 BUS structure has no
provision for extended addressing, no connection is made to the bus from
these [XM] bits on the RKVII-D." (pg. 3-5).

    > The DEC RK05 disk subsystem cost $10K list circa 1978 (drive, RKV-11D
    > controller and cabinet), so this wasn't a trivial purchase.

Interesting. Where did you see that listed, just out of curiosity? (I looked
in the Jan '84 PDP-11 Systems and Options, my copy of which just showed up,but
that's too late; I could probably find it if I pawed through all my DEC sales
literature, but I'm too lazy... :-).

	Noel


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