DECdatasystems

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Bill Pechter wrote: I had never seen one before, but had been told about its front panel. I thought it would clash, being mostly white in a black/maroon rack. I am pleasantly surprised with how pretty it is. Now I just have to find the cards for it...and someone to help me remove it from the back of my truck. But the DECdatasystems are a later packaging, right? If so, how late in the life of the 11/70 are we talking? 1908-ish? I'm wondering what peripherals I need to look for for it to be a historically accurate, catalog-perfect configuration. I'm guessing an RM03/05/80 would be OK for disks (and easier to handle than a RPxx!), but I'm not sure what tape or other things should go with it. That brings me to another question. Is there anywhere that I can easily find either the introduction date of DEC peripherals or (even better) the date range during which the peripherals were sold? Google works about 20% of the time for this, and it's slow going. I didn't live through the PDP-11 heyday like some of you, :-) and it's hard for me to get a good idea of what was intended to go with what. -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)subatomix.com