21 Mar
2018
21 Mar
'18
7:42 p.m.
On 03/21/2018 10:04 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote:
Can a panel that displays everything like a 8I be built, yes.? Keep in
mind there
will be at least? 55-58 lamps/leds and drivers.?? The circuit is simple
though
repetitive to the max.? More of a mechanical pain than electronic.? It
would
likely not fit the existing panel space.
Allison Parent
PDP-8F SN 01030
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Doug Ingraham via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
There were versions for Telco, Power, and other industries never minding
the typeset 8s.
A few were done by CSSS (customer services special systems) for military
and other
more unique specialized systems.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:02 PM, Charles Dickman
via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Not sure I want to go there...
If you have ever looked at the DEC part number listing on bitsaver's
you will be amazed at all the specials that were done. And that was
what I was really interested in. Did DEC ever make a fancy panel that
displayed all the registers? The original designer had it in mind
since he displays a selected register at runtime during TS1 and when
the processor is stopped since that is TS1.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:59 PM, allison via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
This would certainly be possible. I discussed exactly this possibility a
few years
ago with a now departed friend. We did a cursory search at the time and
didn't
turn up anything. Of course there are lots of smart people out there who
do a lot
of clever things and never bother to tell the net. My bet would be that
nobody
has wanted this enough to make their own omnibus front panel when there are
still real panels and machines readily available.
I guess you can be the first! Best wishes. > Has anyone ever seen a PDP8/i style console
for the PDP8/e?
I know the 8/I panel won't work with an 8/e. My question was if
there
was a special seen in the wild that had all the register values like
the 8/i did since the panel interface clearly supports it.
--
Doug Ingraham
PDP-8 SN 1175
Charles Dickman
PDP-8/e SN 2630