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Hello Noel Yes Console and if my memory serves me well (which it usually doesn't) programmers console. Who's doing the PDP-8 switches? Rod On 25/10/15 22:33, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Rod Smallwood > Just refresh my memory. C+K are the what I would call PDP8 type?

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Hi Noel That sounds good. Just refresh my memory. C+K are the what I would call PDP8 type? I think the PDP-8 type are a basic slide switch with a U shaped bracket to hold the pivot pins on the lever. One type is is a biased type and the other just a change over. So far everything is

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> From: Rod Smallwood > I'm in the drawing stage for 11/45 11/55 11/70 (common blank size) I think the 11/40 uses that same blank, too (with less holes than the other ones, as it doesn't have the two rotary switches); dunno about the location of the power switch, someone who has an 11/40

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Hello Tony Well like a lot of things its not always simple. Lets deal with the GT40 first. Well I know why I picked the car as opposed to the display. In the late 1960's I did what was called a sandwich course. Part of the time at work and part at college. I worked in the test lab of

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Er.. Wow! Ok the process mimics the original production system. I draw the panel using Inkscape because it runs on windows and Linux, produces .svg (scalable vector graphics) files and its free!! As sources I use photographs, Scans (The best way because there are no lens errors) and

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> The UK is full of small companies making and repairing all kinds of past > products. > > For example the MGB GT (a much loved British sports car). The factory > stopped making them in the early 1980's > However a few guys bought the press tools and have been turning out two > or three body

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On 10/23/2015 6:43 PM, Mike Ross wrote: > 1. A replacement perspex for a pdp-12; damaged in shipping :-( If you mean the plexiglass for the console, I might be able to help with that. I thought at one point I was going to get an entire PDP-12 from U. Wisconsin Comm. Arts, but when I showed up

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On 10/23/2015 10:37 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: > On 10/23/2015 6:43 PM, Mike Ross wrote: > >> 1. A replacement perspex for a pdp-12; damaged in shipping :-( > > If you mean the plexiglass for the console, I might be able to help with > that. I thought at one point I was going to get an entire PDP-12

Retro Reproduction 2

Hi Guys Well my missive on reproductions seems to have generated some interest. There seems to be a lot of will to keep the old systems going and to reproduce parts for them and indeed build complete systems from new parts. The main areas of interest are front panels (Not just DEC), key

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Mike said: > 4. IBM metal panel consoles. I have a couple of these - System/370 > models 145 and 155 - which are complete but a bit ropy and rusty and > damaged in parts; see: http://www.corestore.org/370148-1.jpg - They're > just sheet steel painted black with the legend silkscreened (I >

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On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:22 AM, rod wrote: > Hi Guys > > Well my missive on reproductions seems to have generated some interest. > There seems to be a lot of will to keep the old systems going and to > reproduce parts for them > and indeed build complete systems