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Article #1293Disk drives, etc.
From: cel
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1985 20:58
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1985 20:58
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I have a certain amount of experience in hooking up extra drives to the Percom...last year I got one of those surplus RX180AB's, and interfaced it without much problem. The same drive was also purchased by friends of mine to hook onto Radio Shack color computers and others. Apple uses a strange disk format/data encoding scheme, but that's all in the controller board and I think the drives are standard. If you can find a Percom, by the way, BNF Electronics is still selling the RX180's (still in their DEC boxes) .... 2 double density single sided drives in a very nice cabinet with power supply for $200 according to the last catalog I have. They're surplus but brand new. Apparently DEC dumped them when the "stick a micro in your VT100" campaign flopped. Drop a line if I can help with more information. --Chuck Lane cel@cithex (or CIT-HEX for arpa)
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