I was on the research staff at SRC from 1987 until 2001, and I had a
Firefly as my main computer for several years until we replaced them with
MIPS and Alpha based machines.
Mine originally had two MicroVAX II 2-cpu cards and a cpu+I/O card. Later
the two 2-cpu cards were replaced with 2-cpu CVAX
Folks,
I have in my loft 2 x RL02 with Packs in place and 1 x RX02 drive, which I
got with various other PDP-11 bits. They have been roughly treated and
probably don't work, but they take up a huge amount of space, and I can't
see me ever getting the time to do anything with them. Does anyone
Hello everybody,
recently, there was an US epay auction with a CDC 849 disk pack.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/292129988099
This pack is for the early CDC 851/852 disk storage drives and thus not of
interest for me, as the packs I am looking for my 854 drive have a different
amount of sectors per
On 6/3/17 10:21 AM, P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote:
> The surfaces of the disk packs of type 9871 or 871 that came with it where
> corroded and are not usable anymore.
Did you keep them?
The platters can be replaced with ones from the single-platter IBM 2315 (ie.
RK05) and use similar head tec
On 03/06/2017 17:57, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
I have in my loft 2 x RL02 with Packs in place and 1 x RX02 drive, which I
got with various other PDP-11 bits. They have been roughly treated and
probably don't work, but they take up a huge amount of space, and I can't
see me ever getting the ti
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow
> via cctalk
> Sent: 03 June 2017 18:49
> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Anybody has Control Data (CDC) disk packs for 841 and 844 disk
> drives to spare with?
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>
>
> On 6/3/17
