 DECtape drives. Dectape, the block-addressable tape.
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VAX 11/751, the industrial/military model. This one served the USAF and has fujitsu eagle drives and an emulex controller.
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VAX 11/780, the first VAX ever.
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John Wisniewski with an 11/780
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 Ok this one pdp-8 has a couple broken switches, but the others (8e's and 8i's) are fine.
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BSL disk-ram unit. Connected to a pdp-8i, it gave the user about 780K of additional 'memory' through the use of a single platter with multiple fixed heads.
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 today's opinions notwithstanding, it was very advanced for its time and much cheaper than the same amount of core memory.
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 pdp8i cabinet 1 of 2.
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