PDP-11 Hard Drives

Allison ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Thu Oct 6 15:11:16 CDT 2005


>
>Subject: Re: PDP-11 Hard Drives
>   From: "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
>   Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:25:01 +0000
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>At 09:17 AM 10/6/05 -0400, Allison wrote:
>>>
>>>Subject: PDP-11 Hard Drives
>>>   From: Madcrow Maxwell <madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com>
>>>   Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:40:54 -0400
>>>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>>>
>>>I've been looking for a list of the various hard drive units available
>>>for the PDP-11 and their capacites, but have not been able to find one
>>>online. Can anybody help me out here?
>>
>>Reason is your asking too broad a question.
>>
>>PDP-11 was a series of CPUs/systems that used at least 4 busses and 
>>an even greater array of storage facilities over the period from 1970
>>to current(yes current!).  So to even start answering the question. 
>>
>>What cpu or bus?  Or what time period?  Fixed or removable?
>
>   And factory and/or 3rd party drives. If you want to include 3rd party it
>would take a book to list them all!
>
>    Joe

I also forgot to ask what OS as tere wer device limits on some such as 
exists with RT-11 (32mb per logical device). And what generation of OS
such as Unix V6 (no mscp).

Allison




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