I bought RK05 packs from Althea (sp?). I know they make diskettes too. Trying to locate their web site so I must be spelling it wrong :-) Bill
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 5:14 AM p.gebhardt--- via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hello list, > > Yesterday, I was wondering, if there are any multiplatter disk pack > production tools known to exist? > There are disk pack inspection and cleaning tools in the wild (also one on > eBay for a ridiculously high price) and occasionally, I also saw unused and > originally packed disk platters for sale, but these are, to my limited > knowledge, worthless if the production and platter alignment tools are > missing. > I remember vaguely somebody writing on this list years ago that some last > systems were tossed by some company in California. But disk packs were also > produced on the European continent and in for instance in Bulgaria(ISOT) > for computer disk drives in the federal republic of Germany and the Soviet > Union. > I was just wondering about this since it is getting more and more > difficult to come across disk packs provided that spare unused platters arw > available. The (9)877 for the CDC SMD 80MB drives 9762 and OEMs seemed to > have been fairly wide-spread and these still show up from time to time for > offer. But the 300MB packs for the CDC 9766 are rare now. Older drives are > close to unobtainium. I never came across a five-platter pack for my CDC > 854 drive and i have never seen packs for my MMD 844 or my CDC BC3xx disk > drive for 200MB disk packs. > The question will rise what I wanna do with these. I have a working 9762 > drive and some day, I would like to try to restore the other ones I have. > For the SMD drives, I have spare heads and alignment tools and a disk pack > cleaner. I don't intend to run them for hours because I don't have a clean > room environment that is appropriate to the specs of these drives. I just > love these pieces of storage technology and it would be great to at least > have one pack for the drives that are missing one. > Any thoughts from the disk experts would be greatly appreciated :) > > Greetings, > Pierre > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.digitalheritage.de >
