Subject: RE: RL01 support in NetBSD?
To: John A. Maier <johnam@kemper.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/17/2000 17:18:28
On February 17, John A. Maier wrote:
> That is wierd! I was just wondering if I could rip the controller for a
> RL02 out of my old PDP-11/23 and drop it in my uVAX II. Not that there
> is any real reason I would want to, I really hated those things.
>
> 5megs(RL01)/10Megs(RL02) and the box is 50-75kg! If you want parts for
> your RL01/2, I've got 10 in my shed. Those things died so often, I had
> to keep spares. I do not miss them...
Wow...I've *never* heard that about RLs. I've run probably ten of
them in my day; only had one die once...and that was due to lightning.
-Dave McGuire