On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 10:00 -0400, Paul Koning wrote: Hmm, I've only got one photo of our 8 here on this machine, however... Machine (panels are currently laying behind it, they're not missing!): http://www.patooie.com/temp/pdp8small.jpg Closer view of the drives: http://www.patooie.com/temp/dectapes.jpg I don't know this machine's history, although I can ask. I did wonder if the bronze panels were just the same as this EBay 8 and had been stripped back to metal for some reason (i.e. they were once painted black), but (without the machine in front of me to check) it looks like the lettering's added direct to the panel - plus of course it carries the DECtape55 nameplate which the TU55s of the EBay machine don't have. I thought it was going to be a stupid question with a really easy answer (I'm a DEC novice!) but maybe not! :-) cheers Jules

PaulK: Here's Bletchley's 8: http://www.wowrarelook.co.uk/pdp8.jpg http://www.wowrarelook.co.uk/pdp82.jpg http://www.wowrarelook.co.uk/pdp83.jpg (~250k JPG) -- adrian/witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?

Thanks. One of these days I'll sort out some of the others, particularly now that the museum has been shoehorned into a much smaller area of the park leaving the big iron with the possibility of a nasty move in the very near future. We might be asking for volunteers :) I don't think so, Jules will know otherwise. -- adrian/witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?