Speaking of these drives, I have a single decpack cartridge which hitchhiked 
along with a purchase of RL02 packs. It's marked "decpack 2200 BPI-12" and has 
12 sector notches in the hub. Does that mean that it was most likely used with 
an RK05 drive in a PDP-11 system? I seem to recall that packs used with a PDP-8 
system would have 16 sector notches. I hope that I can procure a matching drive 
for it one of these days, even though Marc's video makes me think I'd be 
royally screwed if I didn't also manage to procure a good alignment pack to go 
with it, and maybe some spare heads. I don't have any experience with the 
front-loading drives yet.

Labels on the pack indicate that it saw some DEC maintenance on 1/6/84, and it 
was used by somebody named Fred Knight. It's labeled "KMC-LP Testing Pack". I 
know it's a long shot, but it would be neat if any of that meant something to 
anybody on the list.

I don't know anything about how to clean hard drive packs, and that's something 
I'd like to learn about.

-- 
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <n...@nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/

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