[Coco] off topic - clone a PDP-11 hard drive

Mike Delyea mdelyea at gmail.com
Mon May 13 17:29:15 EDT 2019


No, its a 5.25 inch width disk but its tall - about 4 inches tall.

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 5:23 PM John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Like this one?  http://www.pdp-11.nl/peripherals/disk/rk05-info.html
>
> That article alone was worth reading.  It had a note about how to use
> alcohol to moisten the cleaning surface before cleaning disk heads.  I had
> completely forgotten about that lost maintenance task...
>
> John
>
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> Sorry for the off topic subject matter.  One of the guys I work for asked
> if I could make a clone of a hard drive in a PDP-11.  I don't know much
> about it other than it looks like a MFM drive.  I don't know what system is
> installed either.  Anybody had any experience with this?
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