PDP-8/e rack questions

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.

> -----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: >> 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.