On 02/10/2024 16:01, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
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
There is a nice picture here:-
https://web.archive.org/web/20230822210411/http://history.cs.ncl.ac.uk/anniversaries/40th/images/ibm360_672/29.html
Dave
