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- From: dent@cwis.unomaha.edu (Dave Caplinger)
- Subject: Re: What's an RC25 please??
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:39:18 GMT
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- gary@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >The title says it all.
-
- The RC25 is a half-fixed half-removable drive that was used (at least)
- in the VAX-11/725 (deskside version). I believe that each portion was
- 25MB (or very close) so the whole drive had a capacity of 50 or so MB.
- I believe that DEC marketed "external" versions of these as well,
- presumedly for the VAX/11-7xx family, but they may have also had them
- for the DEC Professionals or whatever that PC-ish thing before the
- Rainbow was. :-) I don't really remember for sure...
-
- Say... do you happen to have one you want to get rid of? :-) The local
- University ACM chapter has a VAX-11/725 with the internal RC25 drive but
- the power supply for the RC25 doesn't work (the rest of the 11/725 seems
- OK), so I know they're in the market for one cheap (they're students after
- all :-). If so, please reply email...
-
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- - Dave Caplinger "Freedom's so hard when we all are bound by laws
- dent@loria.omahug.org etched in the scheme of Nature's own hand, unseen
- dent@cwis.unomaha.edu by all those who fail in their pursuit of faith."
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