"Removable" hard drives (was Re: Thoughts -> Re: classiccmp server)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:09:15PM -0500, Jay West wrote:
> Sellam wrote...
> >So build it with MODULAR platters.
> 
> Sounds suspiciously like floppy disks. Technology once again comes full 
> circle.

RC25 anyone?!?  (grinning, running and ducking)

-ethan

(for the DEC-impaired, the RC-25 is/was a fixed/removable platter drive with
about 25MB each.  You had to mount a cart to spin up the internal platter.  I
_think_ there was one positioner, so it could be kinda slow.  Many people have
had problems with its reliability)

P.S. - having (re-)aquired a VAX-11/725 a year ago August, I'm looking for
an RC-25 cart or two.  I used to have several, but they disappeared from
the same place that my first VAX vanished from when they went out of
business (long story).  No hurry... I won't be spinning it up for probably
about six months.  If I had a "better" disk for it, I'd use it.  How much
do Unibus SCSI cards go for?  :-)


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