DEC RK11-C Disk Controller - on ebay...or is it?

[Chris Zach]

Interesting. It looks to have about half of the modules my old RK8 
controller had, I wonder how they managed to shrink it down for a pdp11. 
Was the data-break interface for the 8 that complicated?

C


On 2/8/2021 6:16 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 5:53 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> If you search ebay for "DEC RK11-C Disk Controller", you'll find a listing
>> of a backplane of flipchip cards, but it's not like any RK11-C I have ever
>> seen.  Am I right, this is a mis-labeled auction?
> 
> It seems to match fairly well with the module layout for the standard
> (non-double-buffered) RK11-C at
> http://gunkies.org/wiki/RK11-C_disk_controller
> (slot 1 on the right)
> 
> I can't recall mine to a high amount of detail, but that looks about right.
> 
> The ribbon cables are a bit out of place... perhaps they were just
> stuffed into empty slots to keep them from being damaged.
> 
> -ethan
>