I have one that looks slightly different than the one shown earlier https://w2hx.com/?prefix=x/VintageComp/RL-Drives/
But I could use one or two more, so add me to the list of prospects. Were there larger cabinets designed to hold these? I can imagine some operations having dozens of these disk packs and storing them in many linear feet of desktop wire holders might not be an efficient way to store them. 73 Eugene W2HX Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/w2hx-channel/videos -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Chapman via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 10:12 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Cc: Jonathan Chapman <li...@glitchwrks.com> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Dec rl02 disk pack shelf design I have a friend who has one of the wire rack RL style pack racks, which looks a lot like the one pictured. I've thought about having a wireform manufacturer do a run of them. Aforementioned friend is willing to loan it for dimensional capture/reproduction. Is this something people would be interested in? If so I can set up a preorder information-gatherer and get interest numbers. Final form would probably be stainless wire to avoid having to chrome it. I'd try very hard to have it made in the USA, but would consider offshore manufacturing if the price was too high (as is the case with circuit boards, for most of our products/projects). Thanks, Jonathan ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 at 06:26, Joshua Rice via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > I have definitely seen pictures of them stacked edge-on. Since they > were essentially identical physically to the IBM 5440 disk packs > (though formatting would be wildly different), i imagine that might be > a good place to start in regards to existing designs. Alternatively, > it should be trivial to knock one together with some ply and dowels. > > https://collection.motat.nz/records/images/xlarge/35979/3a9db5d799ac1f > e3783402cbe0e8a525fcd10503.jpg > > > Cheers, Josh > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "devin davison via cctalk" cctalk@classiccmp.org > > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > cctalk@classiccmp.org > > Cc: "devin davison" lyokob...@gmail.com > > Sent: Monday, 8 Aug, 2022 At 21:21 > Subject: [cctalk] Dec rl02 disk pack shelf design Hello, I have many > rl02 disk packs for my pdp 11/34 and 11/05. I have just been stacking > them upright, but that has not been the safest or the most space > efficient. Were any kinds of shelves made for these disk packs, > perhaps similar to 9 track hanging tape racks? Trying to make things > look more organized too. > Hoping someone here has one and can share a pic, perhaps it is a > design i can duplicate and make with some woodworking tools. > Thanks, > Devin D.
