I made a zero (was Re: Stuff I want - all I want is a "0")

On 5/1/05, vrs <vrs at msn.com> wrote: Nice job. I was recently going through a box of plastic bits (to put away the handles I got from you, coincidentally), and found a 6 and a 7, from an RK07, no doubt (since the RL01/RL02 switches top out at 3)... IIRC, one can use them modulo 3 in an RL01/RL02 (i.e., these would work as 2 and 3) if one doesn't happen to have a full load of RK07s to populate with numbers. My recollection of the old days was that 1s and 2s were harder to find that 0s, but probably because we never misplaced our 0s... they were right there on the system drives. Somewhere in some old DEC reseller's warehouse there has to be an enormous box of numbers... much like teeth in the fabled elephant's graveyard. Anyway, nice work with the molds, Vince... as you get better at things, perhaps you might work your way up to PDP-11/70 toggles (no... I don't have any examples to mold from; my 11/70 panel came partially pre-stripped (thanks again, Jay!)) -ethan -ethan