17 Jan
2002
17 Jan
'02
9:20 a.m.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Jan 16, 22:54, Bill Bradford wrote:
We replaced all the bulbs in our RK05s early on with leds. They are
still
going strong after 2 decades.
-nick
Anybody know what DEC item these are from? I got
a bunch of them
(at the time, in a little foam "holder" in a box) a few months ago
with a big batch of PDP-11 stuff, but my dog got ahold of it and
they're now all over a section of the carpet in my garage..
http://www.mrbill.net/~mrbill/bulbs.jpg
They look like the panel bulbs for a PDP-8, which are the same as for
things like a DX11 or RK05 drives. Did the earliest Unibus machines also
use bulbs or were they always LEDs? Anyway, they're worth saving. The
correct bulbs are hard to get now (the types I've found available are
higher current than the correct ones).
