15 Jun
2006
15 Jun
'06
10:25 a.m.
from jrkeys at concentric.net
More Good News!
There is a fully wired and complete 407 Control Panel in the mail on it's
way. You can see one here
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/407.html
"Control Panel" must be an IBM term. We always called 'em
"plugboards".
And I seem to recall that the 407 one is much larger than 16". If it's
that small, it might be from a different machine.
Unfortunately, this won't give anyone the experience of programming the
407--it was a lot of fun, particularly when you added a 519 to do summary
punching. A mechanical engineer's fantasy.
Now, there would be an interesting "homebrew" project for someone--a
"real"
plugboard connected to a PC that simulated the operation of the 407...
Cheers,
Chuck