See page 2-8 for a view of the packing configuration. http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/tifftopdf.pl/pdp8docs/ek-0rx02-tm-001.pdf <http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/tifftopdf.pl/pdp8docs/ek-0rx02-tm-001.pdf>
Jerry Weiss j...@ieee.org > On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Jerry Weiss <j...@ieee.org> wrote: > > Make sure the doors are shut. I used to tape them. Remove any floppies you > care about. > > Some of the non-DEC 8” drives used to come with a cardboard blank. > But these were double sided disks and the blank was meant (I believe) > to prevent the heads from banging against each other. > > > Jerry Weiss > j...@ieee.org > > > >> On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> >>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> From: devin davison >>> >>>> I was told to lock the heads in the rx01 and rx02 drives. >>> >>> Err, I think we told you to lock the heads the RL0x's, not RX0x's; the >>> former >>> use large rigid packs, the latter are 8" floppy drives. AFAIK, there is no >>> need to lock RX heads when moving them - there is nothing in the manual >>> about >>> RX drives being shipped from DEC with the heads locks. >> >> That seems logical; stepper motors are to some extent self-locking. >> >> paul >> >> >
