> On Oct 15, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Josh Dersch <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any idea what drive/system an 8-sector decpack would have
> been used with? We have a few of them on our shelves at the LCM and I can't
> find any reference that mentions 8-sector packs. (Just the usual 12 and
> 16-sector ones.)
>
> They're clearly labeled "decpack 1100 BPI - 8" and the sector ring marks out
> eight sectors. These are RK05 (IBM 2315) style packs.
Half density? I vaguely remember an RK05 style drive at half the density.
RK02? Or am I mixing it up with RP02 vs. RP03?
The peripherals handbook says that the RK05 recording density is about 2000
bpi, so 8 sectors would be 256 12-bit words at half density, i.e., half the
sector slots of the regular PDP8 pack.
paul
