[COFF] Disk Technology was [Simh] Which PDP-11 to choose

[John P. Linderman]

There were eagles, and then there were super-eagles. Our experience with
eagles was great, and we were eager to try the (larger) super-eagles. We
soaked them for a month or so, then put them into production use.
Whereupon, they started dropping like flies. It turns out the glue they
used to attach the platters to the spindle slowly crept out over time,
eventually coming to grief with a read/write head. This experience was
wide-spread, and seriously damaged Fujitsu's reputation.

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:11 AM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 09:49:42AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> >  An Eagle or Eagle-II was a whole lot lighter (and physically smaller)
> than
> > an RP06 or RP07 (or an RM series drive for that matter). It is
> interesting
> > to hear you had problems with the Eagles.   They were generally
> considered
> > the best/most reliable of the day.   The SI controller on the Vax was
> less
> > so, although many of us in the UNIX community used them.
>
> We ran Eagles on the Masscomps we had at Geophysics.  Nothing but good
> things to say about those drives.
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