Disk platter identification
Rick Murphy
rick at rickmurphy.net
Tue Jul 19 21:33:49 CDT 2005
At 10:40 AM 7/19/2005, Director wrote:
>Of course I should have realized by now that attachments don't get sent to
>the list. If I had read the introductory material I might have even been
>told that. <blush>.
>
>Here's an URL for the image in question:
>
>http://www.cse.uta.edu/TheMuseum@CSE/Whazat.html
Based on the size, that's a RF08 platter. It's too big to be a DF32
platter. (Assuming it did come from a PDP-8 connected drive.)
It's probably not useful outside the drive it came from unless you
reformat it on the new drive. There's very little chance the heads will
line up on any other drive.
-Rick
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