nice pdp-11 photos

On 2/2/07, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote: I'd be happy with a DS570 - my 11/70s are in H960 and lack the nice frontpanel (though Jay West was nice enough to give me an old frontpanel PCB minus the switches he'd harvested). Someday, I'll track down a some defunct switchpanels and harvest enough parts to get one or two frontpanels working (the circuit is quite straightforward and easy to follow). The switch bodies are not the difficult part to find - they are rather ordinary C&K bodies, but the mounting ears are a bit unusual to me - they are meant to snap into an approx 10mm square hole for support, with only the switch leads going through the PCB. The 11/70 frontpanel assembly has a perforated metal bar to accept these switches. On top of that, of course, are the DEC triangular toggles themselves, but they mount to standard C&K toggle pivots - one could transplant things back and forth to reconstruct a frontpanel, presuming one has a source for the snap-in switch bodies to begin with (all of my C&K switches are the PCB-through-hole-mount). Color mismatch or not, it's still a nice size... I have no corporate cabs :-( I've had machines in places where I could have had several corporate cabs, but only enough vertical clearance for one H960 (tiny under-shop-floor basement in a 19th century building). -ethan