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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 07:11:24 -0700
Subject: [COFF] Disk Technology was [Simh] Which PDP-11 to choose
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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.