11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
4:31 p.m.
On 3/11/11 6:46 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Yes, a proprietary silk-screened bezel over a standard 11/20 front
panel, as has been done with lots of PDP-8 and PDP-11 systems.
I figured somebody here would recognise it more quickly than if I went
looking for -11 front panel photos. While many -11s were used in
embedded systems, I don't think I had seen one where they were actually
trying to hide the fact by silk-screening new front panels.
I have a PDP-8/e with another company's custom-silkscreened front
bezel; it doesn't say DEC or DIGITAL anywhere on it. Pat Finnegan has
(I think) a PDP-11/35 with a similarly-custom front bezel. I don't
recall if that says DEC or DIGITAL on it but I think it doesn't.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
> I
extracted a couple of photos from the Fox-2 doc at the
> archive.computerhistory.org:
> http://www3.telus.net/~bhilpert/tmp/foxboro/
>
> So for PDP-11 experts, could the machine in the photos be a
> rebadged/OEM
> PDP-11 ca. 1972 ?
That looks exactly like a PDP-11/20 front panel.
The switch and light patterns certainly do, but the silk screen around
them looks unique.
http://www.retrotechnology.com/pdp11/front_panel.jpg 