DEC RM05 mountings

[Mike Cesari]

On Oct 4, 2004, at 8:11 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:

>
> Does anyone know how an RM05 drive assembly fastens to the massbus
> control cab beneath? Doesn't seem likely that the drive assembly just
> rests on top - but there's no obvious way of securing the drive/cab
> together. I assume something's supposed to thread through the bracket 
> at
> the top-front of the control cab and attach to the drive, but what/how?
> And then what secures the drive toward the rear?
>

Jules,

The drive assembly and massbus ctlr cabinet are side-by-side. If you 
have a
second drive, the controller cabinet is sandwiched in between; there's 
space
in the controller cabinet for 2 controllers. Bitsavers has RM05 
documentation:

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/disc/RM05

See the picture on the front cover of RM05_Handbook.pdf


Mike (Who scraped his knuckles on DEC stuff too often 15 or so years 
ago...)