10 Sep
2009
10 Sep
'09
2:30 a.m.
>Subject: [personal] You just can't buy these
anymore
>One of the few items damaged in the shipping of our PDP7 from University
>of Oregon was a handful of the front panel switches. The switches
>themselves are a standard telephone switch and are still available! But
>the long, tapered bat handles were unobtainium.
Same happened to Tore's PDP7 system in Oslo, he may be interested but I
think restoration of that system has stalled.
What are the switches, type # supplier ?. I thought they were a C&K 7101
style, I'm looking into creating a front panel with modern elcectronics for
a lookey-likey blinkenlights.
>So, one of our folks with above-average mechanical
aptitude *made* some
>for us:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hUEPfgKJwY
>Pretty cool, huh?
You can do anything with the right tools !
Would appreciate any photos or info on the restoration for the PDP-7
register
Regards
Mike.
http://www.soemtron.org/pdp7.html
>UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective
about who its friends are.
>Ian S. King, Sr. Vintage Systems Engineer
>Living Computer Museum
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