2 Oct
2002
2 Oct
'02
9:09 a.m.
On Oct 2, 13:55, Chris Muller wrote:
I've been asked to try to get some data (to CD) from some number of RK05
and/or RK07 packs. I have an old 11/73 floating around, but I believe the
RK's were only for Unibus, so the drives alone wouldn't help me. My
contact
is unaware of the O/S, but I resume its got to be RT
or RSX. (?)
The QBus equivalent of an RK11 is an RKV11-D, which is a single quad board,
controlling up to eight RK05's. They were moderately common on larger
11/03 and some 11/23 systems.
The RK06 and RK07 use an RK611 controller, which is a large multi-board
unit occupying two system units, usually in an expansion box. There's no
QBus equivalent that I know of. Emulex did make QBus boards that emulated
an RK611, or more accurately, emulated the whole RK711 subsystem using a
QBus SC02 controller and an SMD drive, but you couldn't connect a real
RK06/7 to one of those.
The OS could be RT or RSX, possibly RSTS or something more unusual like
MUMPS. Even 7th Edition Unix has an RK driver. I think RT-11 or RSX-11
would be most likely, though.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York