[Simh] Which PDP-11 to choose

[Johnny Billquist]

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 <spacewar at gmail.com 
> <mailto:spacewar at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 30, 2019, 19:37 Clem cole <clemc at ccc.com 
>> <mailto:clemc at 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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