15 Feb
2007
15 Feb
'07
11:12 a.m.
On Feb 14, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote:
I bought two front panels from some type of computer
from ebay for
the switches and lights. After receiving them, I find they are too
neat to tear apart. They were said to come from a telephone company
central office. Does anyone recognize these? I can't find any names
on them.
http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/tele_comp_panel1.JPG
http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/tele_comp_pnl1.JPG
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it's a control panel from
something like an IBM Coupling Facility (which wouldn't have existed
as a product in 1968) for a 360, which would have had "channels" and
was available custom in triplex processor configurations.
References:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#26
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#7
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/3-1.htm
http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/bg12.cfm
http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/
trans/tq/&toc=comp/trans/tq/2004/01/q1toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/TDSC.2004.4
ok
bear
