[Info-vax] search for SDI and SMD disks (in europe)

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/30/2011 4:06 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2011-05-30 00.32, Hans Vlems wrote:
>> On 28 mei, 14:01, shadoooo<shado... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>> To restore a couple of old machines I'm searching for fixed and/or
>>> removable disks.
>>> For one machine I would need an SMD disk or cartridge drive.
>>> For the other machine, I need an SDI disk unit.
>>> If anybody has some to sell a reasonable price, please let me know.
>>> Thanks
>>> Andrea
>>
>> Andrea,
>> an SDI disk unit means an RA drive, right?
>> Not that I have one, just curious if an RA90 or RA72 may still be
>> found !
>> Hans
>
> I guess this is not the right time to talk about the 50+ RA90 drives we
> tossed about five years ago...
>
> Johnny
>

RA series drives belong in a museum!  They were pretty good disks for 
their day but that day is LONG GONE!  They were power hogs, 35 ampere 
starting surge and something like seven amperes steady state for the RA-81.