Just as an FYI: An RP04/05/06 is 22" wide, if we talk about the whole
disk cabinet, and that is excluding the DCL side cabinet. The DCL added
another 9" for a total of 31 inch. An RP07 with side covers is 26.5 inch.
Johnny
On 2019-07-01 13:31, Clem cole wrote:
19” form factor for the disks drive fir the space in the 19” relay rack.
You’re right the platters themselves were smaller. The disks were
referred too by the mechanical FF. 19, 8, 5.25 etc.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not
quite.
On Jul 1, 2019, at 12:07 AM, Eric Smith <space...@gmail.com
<mailto:space...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019, 19:37 Clem cole <cl...@ccc.com
<mailto:cl...@ccc.com>> wrote:
You can use RH70 (massbus controllers) and just use the larger
(originally expensive) 19” disks from the early days.
14 inch, but who's counting. :-)
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