Chris Zach via cctalk writes:
> It is quite possible to put a touch of watch oil on the shaft of an
> older drive (without opening it) to quiet the bearings and
> re-libricate the grease. I'm still running RD54's and RD53's without
> much of an issue, firing them up every few months seems to keep
Bill Degnan via cctalk writes:
> Anyone have a VMEbus system they use at least occasionally? If so, what
> make/model/config?
I have a couple of old Stride Micro systems, a 440 and a 460, that get
turned on very occasionally. They run UniStride 2.1, which is based on
SVR2, if memory serves. Ni
Tom Hunter via cctalk writes:
> Any suggestions, advice or tips?
Have you considered simply using double sided tape?
-tih
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James B DiGriz via cctalk writes:
> Oh, I've always been interested in them, just that opportunity and
> means never converged when I wasn't distracted by other things, and
> then they became yesterday's news and hard to find. If yours turn up,
> I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one who'd want som
Fred Cisin via cctalk writes:
> Data will expand to fill slightly more than all available storage
> capacity.- Boyle's law
"The steady state of disks is full." --Ken Thompson
-tih
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Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance
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Fred Cisin via cctalk writes:
> Unfortunately, the ability to handle single-density (FM) reading and
> writing correctly IS one that some machines can; some can't.
For what it's worth, the Adaptec AHA-1542B SCSI controller contains a
fully capable floppy interface as per the original IBM specifi
I wrote:
> I'll have to open up my PDP-11/83 tonight. Its TK50 will stream while
> writing, as long as what's being written can be read reasonably fast
> from (RQDX3/RD54) disk. The TQK controller is sitting right up at the
> top end of the Q-bus, to get high priority -- but I don't know if it's
emanuel stiebler writes:
> TK50 on QBUS with an TQK50 controller which really didn't stream to often
> TK50 on QBUS with an TQK70 controller, which doubled the memory of the
> TQK50, which was capable of streaming ...
Now *that* I wasn't aware of! Thanks!
I'll have to open up my PDP-11/83 to
