I think this panel used to belong to a friend of mine, Marty, who a few month back, fell to cancer. He lived in Atlanta - thus my (unanswered) question about where it came from. I would be very pleased if this was indeed his panel, as it would mean that his estate may be being handled properly. The older ham radio crowd can be very dense when it comes to the value of old computers (sometimes I think they *want* old computers to be worthless), so hopefully the guys dealing or advising Marty's estate are a little more on the ball. Not trashing this panel is a good sign. Hopefully they did not sell it to you for ten bucks. Marty collected all sorts of things, mostly ham radios, but with a few other goodies. He was an early Sun employee, and had a good pile of old Suns, with probably more Sun-1 equipment that anyone on the planet. I am hoping that the estate people have figured this out - those machines are probably worth more than his entire radio collection. Anyway, I remember his panel, and neither of us could make out what machine it was from. He valued it highly. -- Will

On 9/10/10 7:24 AM, William Donzelli wrote: I think Bear Stricklin acquired the Suns.

Yes, this from Marty's estate! I personally drove from Chicago to Atlanta and purchased his estate of IMSAI's, an altair, a PET 2001, and this panel. The Sun 1 went to Bear as stated (good for him, lucky dog!). I wish I could have met Marty, I heard alot of stories, and he seems like someone I would have enjoyed. I am glad we are getting close to identifying this panel, it has been very difficult on my own to dig up and information. Thanks again everyone!

Subject: Re: [multicians] hardware maintenance panel Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:18:50 -0400 From: Chris Jones <> On 09/10/2010 02:11 PM, John W Gintell wrote: It sure looks to me like the Level 68 CPU maintenance panel we had at CISL (for most of my time there we had a Level 68 CPU and a DPS-80/70M CPU). As I recall, the DPS 8 panel was black and didn't have as many switches or lights, depending more on a Level 6 maintenance processor to provide many of the same functions. I always thought the Level 68 panel was the greatest computer panel I ever saw, but I'm a sucker for switches and "blinkenlights". Sorry I can't give many details on its operation. I do recall it was one of a pair on the inside of the doors of the CPU (but we usually kept the doors open to expose the full glory of the panel). I think this was the right hand panel; the left panel might have been called the display panel rather than the maintenance panel, but don't quote me. That one we usually kept displaying the EAQ registers, and you could watch the "worm" of the idle loop scroll in a circle to get an idea of how busy the machine was or whether it was hung (REAL experts could watch the pattern of lights as the system booted and pick out where in that process the system was, or if it had hung).

Marty did not know. He was pretty good at glomming onto interesting junk. -- Will

On Sep 13, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Nick Allen wrote: The only Multics site I know of that was in Georgia (Atlanta, even) was at Southern Company Services, Inc. -- the electric utility. ok bear

From:Ian King Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:23 PM Ian, the Sigmas are 16-bit (Sigma 2/3/5) or 32-bit (6/7/9). --rma

On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Al Kossow wrote: I did. More were found later, and went to a different collector. I will let him speak up if he chooses. ok bear

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