24 Feb
2002
24 Feb
'02
5:16 a.m.
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Bill Pechter wrote:
I had never seen one before, but had been told about its front panel. I
thought it would clash, being mostly white in a black/maroon rack. I am
pleasantly surprised with how pretty it is.
I was installing them as late as 85-86...
DECdatasystem 570.
That was one of the later 11/70's and (in my opinion) one of the nicest
packaged ones to work on. Great find.
Now I just have to find the cards for it...and someone to help me remove
it from the back of my truck.
As far as marketting... who knows. They never
made much sense to me.
But the DECdatasystems are a later packaging, right? If so, how late in
the life of the 11/70 are we talking? 1908-ish? I'm wondering what
peripherals I need to look for for it to be a historically accurate,
catalog-perfect configuration.
I'm guessing an RM03/05/80 would be OK for disks (and easier to handle
than a RPxx!), but I'm not sure what tape or other things should go with
it.
On stuff these guys were sold with TE16's through TU77's... sometimes
they'd have TS11's on them...
Some were upgraded earlier systems. At DEC one of ours had a rack
of RK05's as well as RP06's... Software development sites often had
almost all the types of disks or tapes hanging on the bus.
That brings me to another question. Is there anywhere
that I can easily
find either the introduction date of DEC peripherals or (even better) the
date range during which the peripherals were sold? Google works about 20%
of the time for this, and it's slow going. I didn't live through the
PDP-11 heyday like some of you, :-) and it's hard for me to get a good
idea of what was intended to go with what.
Wish I knew, I'd love to see a comprehensive history.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
Bill