[cctalk] QProbe2023 - QBUS Blinkenlights

Fellow nerds, not sure who knows about this project, so here an announcement ... again? As QBUS PDP-11s (03,23,73,83,93, also uVAX) don't have lots of lamps&switches like the old UNIBUS machines, their owners suffer on "Blinkenlight envy". So I was pushed to pimp up the QBUS diagnostic adapter "QProbe" https://www.retrocmp.com/tools/qprobe Model "QProbe2023" has now focus on entertainment. There's a QBUS signal display in style of old PDP-10/12/15 rack header panels. It can be build into a 5.25" drive case ... or into the BA23 case itself. https://www.retrocmp.com/tools/qprobe/327-qprobe2023-overview By lucky incident you can even see the idle loop pattern of RSX11M+ on some J11 systems. See a full boot of RSX11M+ at time index 5:56 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAcxGwK-vQ As it also has RESTART/HALT/AUX switches, it's also helpful for PDP-11s mounted case-less in a standalone backplane (like the one at https://retrocmp.com/projects/lsibox and on the "Frankenstein" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoW7Szkppww&t=403s ) Btw for unknown reasons, I cannot register to classiccmp itself ... CC me direct in your replies. kind regards, Joerg