Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-04 Thread Noel Chiappa
> I suppose I should try and round up images of 19" x 5-1/4" PDP-10 > panels, too So there are quite a few, although I'm not sure they are exactly the same as the ones used in the PDP-11's, PDP-15's, etc. Those use a plastic bezel which is the same as the blank panels in the H960 racks,

Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-02 Thread Eric Smith
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Yup, in fact, I think you could turn a PDP-5 into a PDP-8 with about 25 > boards > (one tray of system building blocks) and some wire. Mostly, add an > electronic > instruction counter register and alter the instruction

Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-02 Thread Jon Elson
On 11/02/2016 12:10 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote: On Tue, 11/1/16, Jon Elson wrote: Also, some IBM publications (where I'm more familiar with their models) had some photos of machines that probably were in-house prototypes that were quite different than the production

Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-02 Thread Brian L. Stuart
On Tue, 11/1/16, Jon Elson wrote: >  Also, some IBM publications (where I'm more > familiar with their models) had some photos > of machines that probably were in-house > prototypes that were quite different than the > production version. Along the same lines, the

Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-02 Thread Paul Koning
> On Nov 1, 2016, at 6:53 PM, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: > >> ... > I have been looking but not yet found a picture of the DEC-trimmed RC11 etc. > drum > indicator panel to establish how close it is to the Fox one. The 1972 > Peripherals > Handbook only shows the drum part of the RC11/RS64 but

Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-02 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Steven Malikoff > I have been looking but not yet found a picture of the DEC-trimmed RC11 > ... If anyone could point me to a photo of the RC11/RS64 DECdisk panel > to be honest I don't know if it even had one? I'm not sure it did. The list of available inserts (in the

Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-01 Thread Jon Elson
So, the CHM has an RSTS-11 brochure: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/pdp-11/Digital.PDP-11.1970.102646128.pdf which shows in a couple of places (front cover, page 6, 7, 10, 11) an indicator panel which I haven't been able to identify: These look VERY posed, so don't

Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-01 Thread steven
> So, the CHM has an RSTS-11 brochure: > > > http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/pdp-11/Digital.PDP-11.1970.102646128.pdf > > which shows in a couple of places (front cover, page 6, 7, 10, 11) an > indicator panel which I haven't been able to identify: it's the one where >

Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-01 Thread Rod Smallwood
Looking at the setup and the misalignment of some of the panels it may just a bunch of stuff for photographic purposes. Rod On 01/11/2016 15:13, Noel Chiappa wrote: So, the CHM has an RSTS-11 brochure:

Unknown DEC indicator panel

2016-11-01 Thread Noel Chiappa
So, the CHM has an RSTS-11 brochure: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/pdp-11/Digital.PDP-11.1970.102646128.pdf which shows in a couple of places (front cover, page 6, 7, 10, 11) an indicator panel which I haven't been able to identify: it's the one where there are four