[SunRescue] Offerings

John Honniball John.Honniball at uwe.ac.uk
Tue Aug 17 08:45:48 CDT 1999


On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT) James Lockwood 
<lockwood at ISI.EDU> wrote:
> Yes.  HP sold several, the most famous being the Kennedy front-loader
> drive.  It was about the size of a Sparc 1 but a foot high with a hinged
> door in the front.  You opened it up, slid the reel in, and it would
> autoload (most of the time).

I have one like this, ex-Apollo.  Does anyone know anything 
about interfaces for them?  It came with two huge 50-pin
ribbon cables, but I suspect it's not SCSI...

BTW, my datestamp reads 19/12/61, but that's DD/MM/YY, of 
course.  Did my first BASIC programming on a PET 2001 in
1978, then went on to a Prime P750 in 1981 and V7 Unix on
a PDP-11/44 in 1982.  Worked on Suns 1989-1998 (as well as
transputers) and am now regarded as an Old Phart because
I can remember how to use a command-line interface!

--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball at uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England







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