18 Aug
2016
18 Aug
'16
3:35 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> From: Mattis Lind
The other one seems to be the same as this one:
I'm reasonably sure that's connected with the original PC15 high-speed
paper tape controller. On the XVM systems I have the paper tape
function is integrated in the BA15 Peripheral Expander (a small
collection of boards which lives at the bottom of the CPU rack) and
which doesn't have any indicator panel. I'm not aware of any memory
indicator panels associated with any pdp-15 configuration but I could
be wrong!
Oh and there's a better pic of the RF15/RF09 indicator panel in this
manual: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp9/DEC-09-H9ZA-D_RF09_Jul70.pdf
Mike
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The panel to the left is RF15 and the right is TC15. But what is the
middle one?
which is in quite a few PDP-15 images, but still un-identified.
It seems to be always near the CPU, so perhaps it's a panel for the memory
management, or something like that? I've looked through some of the manuals
on BitSavers, and I've yet to turn it up, although the block diagram on page
2-3 of the PDP-15 Installation Manual shows an 'indicator [panel]' (no
further info on it, alas) in that location, which is probably it.
There aren't that many devices in that system, so there are only a few
possibilities: BA15 (paper tape controller), DW15A (bus converter), KE15
(extended arithmetic), MM15-A and MK15-A (memory). It might also be a BD15,
whatever that might be (seems to include a D/A, from what little I can find
on it online), since that was listed as having an insert for it.
Noel