Some progress with my PDP-11/73 system

[David Betz]

>> I soldered it back together but both drives still fail. At least  
>> one of the drives spins up but then back down again.
>
> That can happen if the heads are stuck against the end stop inside  
> the drive.  There's a rubber bumper that goes sticky.  Alison  
> posted more information about that just a few days ago.

Yes, I saw those messages. At this point I'm not up for opening up  
the drive to attempt a fix though. I guess if one of my good ones  
stops working I may change my mind. Instead, I'm starting to look  
into what is necessary for a minimal RT-11 bootable RX50 diskette.  
Unfortunately, that's the only medium I have for moving things to the  
hard drive on the PDP-11.