On 10/2/24 09:11, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Oct 1, 2024, at 8:06 PM, donald donaldwhittemore.com via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
I rue the day I lost an eBay auction. It was a PR photo with a good looking
model mounting a disk in an open drawer of a 2314. If you looked carefully you
would see she was holding a 2311 disk. The 2314 pack was probably too heavy to
use for all the repeated takes the photographer wanted. 😊
Funny.
Drawer? I thought 2314s are top loaders, like the DEC RP03 (which looks about the same
including having a look-alike pack) and the RP04/05/06 series. "Drawer" sounds
like the 3330, or DEC drives like the RL01.
You spin down the drive, wait a while, pull up on the big
blue handle and roll the drive out of the cabinet. This
reveals the top of the pack. You then lower the cover onto
the pack, twist the handle to jack the pack off the spindle,
and lift it out. Reverse process to load new pack, then roll
drive back into cabinet and flip switch. So, the drive is
essentially a drawer in a cabinet of 9 drives. look up on
google to see what the whole system looked like.
Jon
