19 Jul
2016
19 Jul
'16
5:56 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Vincent Slyngstad
<v.slyngstad at frontier.com> wrote:
From: Ethan Dicks: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 8:29 AM
Right. It was your experiences I was thinking of with Molex pins.
I myself have no original pins to measure.
Does anyone have a modern source of pins that fit the socket holes in
the Computer Lab? ISTR there are a few of us here who have an H-500,
but very few, or no, patch cables. I think Molex pins have been tried
and rejected.
Nope. I've been looking for those for some time. I didn't like the Molex
pins, as their retention clips aren't really the right thing and scratch the
brass rings that should interface smoothly with the proper brass taper pins. I have an old scan of the teacher's guide at
http://www.so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/pdf/
This is certainly a contemporary teacher's guide, but it's
stylistically and typographically 1960s and does not resemble the one
I'm remembering. Was there perhaps a later DEC logic lab from 1972 to
1975 that would have had a later manual? Perhaps that's what I'm
thinking of. I just remember being given a workbook by a relative who
was a school teacher right about the time I was first learning logic
and BASIC. It had problems and large blank sections for drawing your
work, among other differences.
-ethan