Pierre, I would suggest that as you haven't seen one in ages, the price reflects the rarity and the vendor is hoping for a rich collector to buy it.
I don't know off hand of anyone who uses one. I know that the 4341 at LCM uses emulated DASD as does the ICL 2900 at TNMOC in the UK which I think has some EDS300 drives https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8314/7939054098_08c37818fe_b.jpg which look almost identical to the CDC drive on E-Bay, there are a few more pics here https://hiveminer.com/Tags/bletchleypark%2Cicl There are people using smaller exchangeable drives such as DEC RL01 and RL02 drives, and the similar drives on the IBM1130 and IBM1800 but those are a totally different ball game... Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of P Gebhardt via > cctalk > Sent: 12 August 2019 18:42 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Control Data 9766 drive on epay > > Hi list, > > Just came across this: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Computing-CDC-Magnetic-Peripherals- > Control-Data-9766-Storage- > Module/143351908424?hash=item2160708848:g:3yEAAOSw1oJdTo9u > > Haven't seen one listed in years. The price lets me assume that this offer > addresses customers that may use these drives in a production environment or > so... > I am not aware of museums or hobbyists who have such drives currently in a > functional state to read and write from and to 80MB (CDC 9762) or 300MB > (CDC 9766) disk packs. Maybe the CHM? ... not taking into consideration the > CHM activities related to the Xerox disk cartidge (2315-equivalent) software > archive project. > Anybody out there? Would be interesting to know. > > Best regards, > Pierre > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.digitalheritage.de
