RL02 disk drive
From Computer History Wiki
| RL02 | |
| Manufacturer: | Digital Equipment Corporation |
|---|---|
The RL02 is a 10MiB, single platter, removable cartridge drive introduced in 1978 by Digital Equipment Corporation.
Its 22-bit QBUS controller is the RLV11,RLV12
Its UNIBUS controller is the RL11
Its lower-end cousin is the RL01.
10.4 MB disk cartridge drive, the enhanced version of the RL01
4.3 BSD disktab
rb02|RB02|DEC RL02 on 730 IDC:\ :ty=removable:se#256:ns#40:nt#2:nc#32:\ :pa#15884:ba#4096:fa#1024:\ :pb#4480:pc#20480:
Emulating the RL02
Reinhard Heuberger has created an open source emulator for the RL02 (and RL01) using a Terasic DE0-Nano Altera Cyclone IV FPGA board, extended with necessary interfacing hardware and an SD card slot. The emulator can be used with a real PDP-11, for example.
* Home page of project * Picture of the simulator connected to a PDP-11/53
