Actually I was thinking of making a replacement/alternate front panel
for my 11/44 uisng the
11/74 panel. Add real blinking lights/switches connected up to the real
UNIBUS/memorybus.
The 11/44 panel is *way* too spartan looking, and the 11/74 panel would
fit just perfectly on
the front of the box.
Gooijen, Henk wrote:
Hmm, I was wondering ... (as if I don't have
enough projects at hand),
the 11/70MP or 11/74 are of course real unobtainium gold-pressed latinum
(perhaps even literally!). So, I think it makes sense to get SIMH running
on a PC/104 board (trivial), add the Blinkenlight Core and I/O Board and
build an 11/74 console. You could make a replica of the console, or perhaps
re-use an 11/70 console panel and make a new plastic front. If the key switch
or the rotary knobs are in the wrong position, you could re-arrange that.
What matters are the switches and the LEDs for a "real" replica.
Of course, I am *not* saying that you should rip a console of a real 11/70 !
We know a source, just be prepared to put down some money ...
I bought a real 11/70 console, and started on the metal workz to build a
nice (smallish) box behind the panel. Guess what's going inside that :-)
But this gets close to the new thread "mounting new hardware in vintage
hardware".
- Henk, PA8PDP.
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Van: cctalk-bounces at
classiccmp.org namens Tim Shoppa
Verzonden: wo 08-02-2006 19:24
Aan: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
Onderwerp: Re: Original 11/74 front panel
Don North wrote
So how many of these panels exist is hard to say.
I know only of one.
Two more can be seen at
http://www.trailing-edge.com/~shoppa/1174Xopen.jpg
<http://www.trailing-edge.com/~shoppa/1174Xopen.jpg>
So that makes three :-).
Tim.
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