DSD-440 and/or drive recommendation for PDP-8

vrs vrs at msn.com
Sun Jun 19 23:19:21 CDT 2005


> The DSD440 is unknown for PDP-8.  I've always seen them on PDP-11s.

I've seen DSD floppies on the PDP-8 (have one, others on ePay).

> The best and easiest disk for PDP-8 is a RX01 (or RX02) Floppy drive
>  and RX8E board. Thats nice as it was supported and easy hook up
> and repair.

Agreed, if you can find an RX8E.

> Even if you don't have an RX8E its a trivial board
> easily copied.

I don't know about trivial (I am trying to do one).  There are a lot of
unobtainium parts in an RX8E that have to be designed out of a modern clone.
(It's easily doable, but not trivial.)

The same could be said for most of the Omnibus boards, actually.

    Vince



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