PDP-8 Disk Drive question

[Bob Shannon]

No, it won't work!

I think I may have a set of RX-01's, but no controller.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 7:22 PM
Subject: PDP-8 Disk Drive question


>   Does anyone know if the M8357 (the RX-01 controller for the PDP-8) will
> work with the DSD-440 drives?  Someone here needs to read some RX-01 disks
> on a PDP-8 >>>ASAP<<< and they think that this combination will work but I
> don't think so. I have a good DSD-440 drive system but I don't have the 
> DSD
> controller for the PDP-8. I also have a M8357 but no RX-01 drive system!
> Anybody have a DSD controller for the PDP-8 that they want to sell or do
> some horse trading for?
>
>     Joe
>
>