TK50Z (was: Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?)

2018-10-04 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018, Adrian Graham wrote: Here?s a pic of my RX50 and TK50. I?ve not tried to power them up for years. Speaking of TK50 and since I'm playing with them at the moment, is there any information on the SCSI command set for the TK50Z? My goal is to talk to one on a Linux system,

Re: Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?

2018-10-03 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 2:38 PM Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: > Here’s a pic of my RX50 and TK50. I’ve not tried to power them up for years. > http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/DesktopRX50TK50.jpg > That looks entirely familiar. -ethan

Re: Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?

2018-10-03 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:32 PM Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > Thanks to Josh, Ethan, Bob, and Adrian for confirming that there were rack > and table-top RX50 drives. It would be nice to get one since I have an > RUX50, but having never seen one before, I won't hold my breath. > > It would also

Re: Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?

2018-10-03 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
Thanks to Josh, Ethan, Bob, and Adrian for confirming that there were rack and table-top RX50 drives. It would be nice to get one since I have an RUX50, but having never seen one before, I won't hold my breath. It would also be nice to find the RUX50 manual and print set.

Re: Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?

2018-10-03 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
>Did DEC offer a rack-mount or tabletop box version of the RX50 floppy >drive, as they did with e.g. the TU58 and TK50 tape drives? I'm wondering >how they expected the RX50 drive to be packaged when used with a Unibus >PDP-11 via the RUX50 controller. We had desktop RX50 and TK50 units for Micro

Re: Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?

2018-10-03 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
I don't recall for certain, what floppy models were done as externals for the DecMate I or II, but I think there were both RX01 and RX50 boxes as described. I don't recall hard drives til the VT278 desktop box. bb On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:32 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 2,

Re: Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?

2018-10-02 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 6:50 PM Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > Did DEC offer a rack-mount or tabletop box version of the RX50 floppy > drive, as they did with e.g. the TU58 and TK50 tape drives? Yes. > I'm wondering > how they expected the RX50 drive to be packaged when used with a Unibus >

Re: Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?

2018-10-02 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:50 PM Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > Did DEC offer a rack-mount or tabletop box version of the RX50 floppy > drive, as they did with e.g. the TU58 and TK50 tape drives? I'm wondering > how they expected the RX50 drive to be packaged when used with a Unibus > PDP-11 via

Rack-mount or tabletop version of DEC RX50 floppy drive?

2018-10-02 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
Did DEC offer a rack-mount or tabletop box version of the RX50 floppy drive, as they did with e.g. the TU58 and TK50 tape drives? I'm wondering how they expected the RX50 drive to be packaged when used with a Unibus PDP-11 via the RUX50 controller.