6 Jan
2009
6 Jan
'09
11:50 a.m.
Those sure look like what we had on PDP-11 systems, too. At least for
most things: the CPU and peripheral logic boxes.
The rails Pontus shows do look familiar, though. My first guess is that
they might come from later products, perhaps from boxes that are pulled
out all the time rather than only for maintenance -- the RL01/02 drive,
for example.
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 6:35 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only
Subject: Re: PDP-8/e rack questions
On Jan 5, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Pontus wrote:
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I recently acquired a PDP-8/e with a TU56 and a
PC04(I think) with
reader only. I've also gotten a DEC rack, but only one set of rails
which I think are wrong and incomplete to boot. I've done some
searching
on bitsavers, but I've only found partial depictions of the actual
rails.
So, what I'm wondering is what does the rails for a PDP-8/e look
like?
These are the ones I got (same rails, different
angles):
http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/pdp8/rails_1.jpg
http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/pdp8/rails_2.jpg
Those are definitely not PDP-8/e rack slides. I pulled mine out a
bit and took some pics:
http://www.neurotica.com/misc/pdp8e-rack-slides-1.jpg
http://www.neurotica.com/misc/pdp8e-rack-slides-2.jpg
Every rack-mounted PDP-8/e I've seen has had slides like this.
These slides were made by ChassisTrak.
-Dave
