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{{Infobox Disk drive
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#Redirect [[RL01/02 disk drive]]
| name = RL02
 
| manufacturer = [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]
 
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[[Image:Rl02.jpg|thumb|A RL02 cartridge.]]
 
[[Image:rl02drive.jpg|thumb|RL02 drive.]]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 =
 
<pre>
 
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:</pre>
 
 
 
==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.
 
* [http://www.pdp11gy.com/doneE.html Home page of project]
 
* [http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/album.php?albumid=184&attachmentid=12300 Picture of the simulator connected to a PDP-11/53]
 
[[Category: DEC Disk Drives]]
 

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