13 Oct
2015
13 Oct
'15
12:59 p.m.
On 10/13/2015 9:29 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
A DEC DataSystem front panel just sold on Ebay for just under $1300. It started at $799
and although I would love to have the regular PDP-11/70 panel, I almost went for it. But I
knew it would go much higher than I could afford. Since I doubt I'll ever be able to
get a real one, making a modern replacement such as Rob Smallwood is doing for the
PDP8's is on my to-do list. Hopefully I'll get there. :)
John H. Reinhardt
From: Henk
Gooijen
yes, please take a nice picture of it! ... The
higher the resolution
the better!
OK, I scanned it (I prefer scanning to pictures, as there is almost
inevitably distortion when using a lens), at 300 dpi. The whole thing
wouldn't fit in my A3 scanner, but I got the majority of it, and the part
that's not shown is just the plain two-colour band.
Available here:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/jpg/CanadaPanel.jpg
and I've also added it to my 'PDP-11 resources page', here:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/pdp11/PDP-11_Stuff.html
Also, I have recently scanned in the front indictor panel for the 11/55 and
11/70 (the later one, with the blue/blue colour scheme), and those can be
found on that page too, along with drawings of the basic 40-45-70 panel (only
the on/off switch, etc, locations differ) and the basic 45-50-55 panel (with
on/off switch and selector switch holes added); those have also been added to
that page.
I'd like to encourage people with other front panels (I myself am
particularly interested in those for the 11/45, RF11, RK11-C and RP11-C) to
scan them too, for people who are interested in doing reproductions. I can
host the images, for people who don't have that capability.
Noel
