DEC RP02/RP03 issues

[Rich Alderson]

> From: Zane H. Healy
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 10:16 AM

> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:

>> I just stumbled across two RP02 and RP03 disk drives (2 RP02, 1 RP03) in
>> probably repairable condition.  We have all cables (power, "bus", "unit")
>> needed to hook the beasts to a RP10 controller of a pdp10. Thinking of
>> restoring and connecting them to a Unibus pdp11.

> This isn't the answer you want to hear, but if these had been hooked up to
> an RP10, wouldn't it make more sense to arrange for these drives to be used
> on a PDP-10 rather than a PDP-11?  Unless I'm mistaken the PDP-11 varient
> are slightly more common.  And yes, I'm saying this even though I *assume*
> you do not have a PDP-10.

Since, so far as I know, there is only one person on the planet with RP10
controllers on PDP-10 systems, and those are currently warehoused with no
plans to do anything with them until he retires (in roughly 15 years), the
need to hook these drives to a PDP-10 is vanishingly small.


Rich Alderson
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