On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:27:15 -0800, Tim Douglass
wrote:

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:42:39 -0500, Mike Patterson
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:12:08 -0800, Tim Douglass
wrote:

Heck, I remember when a 10MB drive was the size of a washing machine
and cost the earth.

Sounds like an RL02 drive, lift-out sets of platters.

Yes! I can't recall the terminology any more, but this was a DEC
installation with 2 RL02 drives.

I remember watching an entire room full of reels of tape backups get
replaced with one shelf of cartridge tapes. It must have been about
1986 or so. It was also about that time that the old PDP 11/70s got
ripped out and replaced with a bank of MicroVax-en.

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com

Yep, we sold a network management system (for our complete line of
4-wire dedicated analog modems!) that used RL02s with a PDP11/44,
later replaced by 11/70s, later still with a microVax running flavors
of RSX-11M.

I was regional tech support for that system for 3 years. It seemed so
cool then, but looking back on it makes me wonder what things will
look like in 20 years when I retire.


Mike Patterson
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