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On 9/27/23 23:52, gah4 wrote:
>> Nobody in their right mind would do that now. Not only is it pointless
>> (who`s going to show up at 3AM to sit in front of a machine?) but there
>> are power bills to be paid, fire concerns, etc.
>
> Power bills I don`t think LCM ever worried about, though maybe they should.
Not anymore.
> Reminds me of another DEC disk, which can be used on either PDP-10 or
> byte addressed machines. The controllers are different, and can only write
> blocks with the appropriate size, which I believe is 576 bytes for the PDP-10,
> and 512 otherwise. You can`t read disk packs on the other one.
RM02/RM03. There`s a jumper on the backplane.
-Dave
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