----- Original Message -----
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009 4:48 am
Subject: Re: pdp11/70 front panel frame
Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:
I think I have a few front panels left, including
the RDC, but
not sure of the frames. Are they the same as an 11/40 or 11/45?
I don't think so. It's been very long since I played with an
11/40, but
the 11/40 and 11/45 have way fewer switches than the 11/70, and
the
frame lines up with the switches on the 11/70.
Can't remember for sure the exact details of the 11/40 I played
with,
but it must have had some kind of filler on the panel, to get to
the edges.
If I remember right, the RDC panel reused the 11/70 panel frame,
by the way.
[...]
You remember right. I was a computer operator on an 11/70 in the late 70's. When the
DEC service technician came by to switch out the standard front panel and replace it with
the remote console, only the panel was replaced, not the frame.
Should have kept it. It was pristine...
Michel Adam