[Info-vax] Assistance needed!! working RM05 drive and VAX needed for proje

[Dave McGuire]

On 9/27/23 23:52, gah4 wrote:
>> Nobody in their right mind would do that now. Not only is it pointless
>> (who's going to show up at 3AM to sit in front of a machine?) but there
>> are power bills to be paid, fire concerns, etc.
> 
> Power bills I don't think LCM ever worried about, though maybe they should.

   Not anymore.

> Reminds me of another DEC disk, which can be used on either PDP-10 or
> byte addressed machines. The controllers are different, and can only write
> blocks with the appropriate size, which I believe is 576 bytes for the PDP-10,
> and 512 otherwise.  You can't read disk packs on the other one.

   RM02/RM03.  There's a jumper on the backplane.

              -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, President/Curator
Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA