I thought the RKV11 could be reworked to 18 bits.???

On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 7:13 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 12:31 PM Peter Ekstrom via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I keep coming back to wanting a removable physical media other than RX33
> > for my 11/23+...
> >
> > While an RK05 or RK07 drive would be really neat, I don't really have
> room
> > for something like that.
>
> The RKV11 controller is somewhat rare (and only supports 16-bit DMA,
> intended for an LSI-11) and there is no Qbus version of the RK611
> controller.
>
> > Alternatively, has anyone ever tried to use a parallel ZIP-100 on a
> PDP-11?
>
> I am not aware of anyone using parallel ZIP drives on anything but a
> PC parallel port.  The SCSI ones work fine on pretty much any machine
> with SCSI (Amiga, Macintosh...) and I know they've been used in a
> PDP-11, but as you said, Qbus SCSI controllers are expensive.
>
> -ethan
>

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