On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Vincent Slyngstad <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ethan Dicks: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 8:29 AM >> >> Does anyone have a modern source of pins that fit the socket holes in >> the Computer Lab? ISTR there are a few of us here who have an H-500, >> but very few, or no, patch cables. I think Molex pins have been tried >> and rejected. > > Nope. I've been looking for those for some time. I didn't like the Molex > pins, as their retention clips aren't really the right thing and scratch the > brass rings that should interface smoothly with the proper brass taper pins.
Right. It was your experiences I was thinking of with Molex pins. I myself have no original pins to measure. > I have an old scan of the teacher's guide at > http://www.so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/pdf/ This is certainly a contemporary teacher's guide, but it's stylistically and typographically 1960s and does not resemble the one I'm remembering. Was there perhaps a later DEC logic lab from 1972 to 1975 that would have had a later manual? Perhaps that's what I'm thinking of. I just remember being given a workbook by a relative who was a school teacher right about the time I was first learning logic and BASIC. It had problems and large blank sections for drawing your work, among other differences. -ethan
