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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: RA-82
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Date: Mon, 14-Jul-86 01:26:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 14 01:26:21 1986
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References: <2050@osu-eddie.UUCP> <212@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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In article <212@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes:
>About a year ago our DEC engineer claimed that DEC were about to announce
>the RA82. He said it would be the same physical size as an RA81, but with
>twice the storage capacity.

The latest rumour I heard claimed that DEC were unable to achieve
a full doubling of the capacity, and that the RA82 was to run
between six and seven hundred megabytes formatted.  I would much
rather see an upgrade for the RA81 that eliminated the head-switch
delay instead.  It really should not be so difficult to use fourteen
read/write amplifiers and no analog switch . . . !

[Disclaimer: I do not *know* that the thing has only one r/w amp,
but why else the 6 ms. head switch delay?]
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