28 Nov
2009
28 Nov
'09
10:03 p.m.
It looks a bit like the main cabinet for our PDP-7. The typeface of the top logo matches,
as do the apparent dimensions. I'm not saying it might not have been for an early -8,
but the Straight 8s I've seen weren't in anything like this. The side-by-side
blue doors are typical -7.
Will, thanks for rescuing this! Regardless of how it's ultimately identified,
it's clearly Old Stuffe. -- Ian
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
Pontus [pontus at update.uu.se]
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 12:56 PM
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Straight-8 Rack available
William Donzelli wrote:
You guys can not tell the top of the Dallas mystery rack has two
doors, side by side? They are not woodgrain, but blue - I have seen
Straight-8s like this, with no woodgrain. Maybe it is for another
piece of DEC gear, but the clues tell me Straight-8.
--
Will
True, it is the proportions of the upper half to the lower half that
don't match. Also the lower part of the Straight-8 does not have doors
and the upper doors are attached to the computer, if the computer is
gone, I would expect that the doors would be gone too.
http://www.megabaud.fi/~setala/pics/pdp8-6p.jpg
/Pontus.
Looking at the rack, since a Straight-8 has huge
backplanes that fill
the top of the rack, there are no upper doors - I'm wondering if
that's an -8/S cabinet.
Hmm you are right, It can't be a PDP-8
