Help identifying a PDP-11

On Sep 15, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Tobias Russell wrote: I have one of those. It's simply a PDP-11/70 in a different type of cabinet with a different front panel...nothing else weird about it. I don't know offhand what other systems came in that type of cabinets, but what you have is definitely a real 11/70. Your has the remote maintenance panel, which replaces the lights-and-switches front panel and allows DEC Field Service to dial into the machine's console and perform standard front-panel operations remotely. As I understand it, nearly all 11/70 systems were originally shipped with standard lights-and-switches front panels. Later in their life cycle, though, DEC swapped out many of those "real" front panels for these remote access panels like the one you have. Now for the important part: The lights-and-switches front panel was the property of the customer, and the policy was to leave them at the customer site. If you got this machine from the original owner, it's likely that the real front panel is stuck in a box in the back of a rack, or in a closet somewhere. Try to find it...it can easily be put back into place. When Brian Hechinger and I scored three 11/70 systems from a publishing house in Pennsylvania years ago, they had these remote panels installed. We found the real front panels and put them back the way they were supposed to be. Incidentally, two of those three systems were of the DECdatasystem-570 ("corporate cabinet") variety like yours. Fantastic! Umm, the drive to the left of the 11/70 in your picture looks more like an RM02/RM03 than an RK07 though...? Can yo confirm? They are top-heavy, so be careful there. If memory serves, RK06/07 drives don't have a manual head locking mechanism. Congrats on that really nice system. It is very similar to mine here. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007