For one thing, I want to ask what a few of these items
are. For one
thing, what are the three identical units on the rightmost rack? Also,
what is the tall unit right above the green PDP in the middle rack? Also,
what is the top unit in the short blue rack?
If you check my home_systems web page, in the recent_acquisitions
section, I have the items listed.
To answer the question, in the first rack are 3 RL01s, 1 RX01, a
pdp-8/a and a pdp-8/e. In the second rack are TU56, 2 Diablo
(RK05 equivalents) and a lab-8/e (the section above the blue/green
8/e panel is the I/O area for data acquisition). The third rack
contains a laboratory peripheral system (LPS) which is a UNIBUS
option...
Next question: Is there anything you can do with these
that my DECMate
can't do (besides peripherals that the DECMate doesn't have)
I will be able to copy data between multiple formats -- RK05, RL01,
DECtape, RX01. I'll be able to breadboard stuff that could be
connected to the lab-8/e... something not pictured is a display
scope on which the lab-8/e could display stuff by driving beam X and Y
and beam intensity.
Last question: What did you use to make this picture?
Powershot 350 digital camera, downloaded to my PC, gamma-edited,
uploaded to the web page along with updates to the home_systems.html
page to point to the new picture...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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