> On Sep 15, 2015, at 1:11 PM, tony duell <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> There was also an RK08, as I recall -- same platter as the RK11/RK05 but 16
>> sectors per track instead of 12.
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> I thought the RK(0)8 was the controller for a PDP8 system. I have an RK8E in
> my PDP8/E, it links to
> a normal RK05 drive.
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> It does indeed use 16 (hard) sector packs, unlike the 12 sector ones used in
> the same RK05 drives
> linked to an RK11 controller (RK11C, RK11D, RKV11D) on a PDP11.
Yes, that sounds right. The terminology gets a bit confusing. I thought the
drives were actually different because of the sector count, but it sounds like
that's handled in the controller and the drive doesn't care.
paul
