5 Feb
2008
5 Feb
'08
10:02 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:37:59PM -0800, Roger Ivie wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>Hmm... I'm having problems envisioning it... I don't think of the
>DECmate or the uVAX2K as having a "front panel". Do you mean that there
>was a wee CRT behind the flap, in the 5.25"-wide space where the drives
>go?
I mean that it had a tube in place of the front of the
box. There were
no drives poking out the front. The tube took up the whole front of the
box:
+------------------------------------+
|+----------------------------------+|
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|| wide, short tube ||
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|+----------------------------------+|
+------------------------------------+
Thinking about it, it might have been just a monitor intended to stack
on top of the DECmate III; that wouldn't need drives or much inside
besides the power supply and the tube.
Ah... that makes a lot of sense - I suppose the advantage would be modularity.
OTOH, a VR201 sits on the top box quite nicely, and was probably already
a standard product by then.
Interesting prototype to hear about. It's a new on one me.
-ethan
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