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From: ted@blia.BLI.COM (Ted Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: A piece of History...
Summary: Young whipper-snapper!
Message-ID: <11461@blia.BLI.COM>
Date: 2 May 90 22:57:51 GMT
References: <2732@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Britton Lee, Los Gatos, CA
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In article <2732@husc6.harvard.edu>, joltes@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Richard Joltes) writes:
> p.s.--how about a DEC Peripherals Handbook for 1981-82!  "The two most recent
> additions to DIGITAL's family of computer peripherals supported by VAX systems
> are the RP07 disk drive, utilizing Winchester fixed-media technology, and the
> TU78 magnetic tape drive..."  (Actually, I'm keeping this one...)

I can beat that! Pulling down my 1973-1974 Peripherals Handbook, I found this
table of current disks on page 3-4:

MODEL		DESCRIPTION	CAPACITY/	AV ACCESS	DATA RATE
				DRIVE		TIME

RC11/RS64	Fixed head disk	64 K words	17 msec		16 usec/word
RF11/RS11	Fixed head disk	256 K		17		16
RK11/RK05	Disk cartridge	1.2 million	70		11
RP11/RP03	Disk pack	20 million	42		7.5

The RK05! Ah, yes, I remember it well!

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