FA: DEC RF-71 Disk Drive

[Antonio Carlini]

>I'm not familiar with an RF-71.  What machine did it go
> with and what interface did it use?  

The interface was DSSI, which appears to have been loosely
based on SCSI (except more tightly specified than SCSI
was at the time). It allowed a sort of "poor-man's cluster"
to be built without having to purchase expensive HSCs etc.

> I didn't see any docs on bitsavers for RF discs.

Search for "RF7" and "RF3" on Manx (vt100.net/manx)
and you'll find some stuff on the net. I've sent a 
load more stuff to the Manx maintainer recently so
I expect a bit more will crop up soon. 

Antonio


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Antonio carlini
arcarlini at iee.org