5 Mar
2004
5 Mar
'04
4:40 p.m.
Does anyone know of a source for replacement
lamps for a PDP-8/E console? I have an otherwise
immaculate console board that I would like to
use in its original condition, e.g., w/o an
LED conversion, but one of the bulbs has been
broken, and, at any rate, additional failures
are likely.
I was able to confirm in the 8/e maintenance manual that the bulb is the
1209219 (page 5-1).
Robert Krten also describes a technique for taking Augat machine sockets and
making sockets for the bi-pin bulbs, to minimize soldering/desoldering on
the relatively delicate fron-panel traces.
www.arrow.com lists the CM2309 for $1.38, but with unknown availability.
Vince