> On Jun 8, 2017, at 3:22 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I happened to find a RS64 / RC11 combo (missing the PSU though). The
> previous owner was an ex DEC field engineer that himself got it in the
> beginning of the seventies. It is used but has the shipping lock on the
> motor axis.
>
> Maybe the chances to get this working isn't that high especially since the
> donator told me about all sorts of problems that happened to them. As far
> as he remembered there were quite some problems with these RS64 and the
> PSUs.
Nice find! I don't think they were all that common; they were only made way at
the beginning of the PDP11 line. I used one in college; it developed a bad
bearing at one point, which was cured simply by sending the motor out to the
local motor shop for a new bearing. Apart from that it worked fine.
paul
