11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
6 p.m.
On Friday 11 March 2011 07:31:11 pm Dave McGuire wrote:
On 3/11/11 6:46 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
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
OTOH, I have a 486 ISA peecee that _does_ say "digital" on the front of it. I
didn't know they were into this stuff, too...
Darn thing only seems to want parity RAM, too.
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>> 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
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. 