4 Nov
2015
4 Nov
'15
7:36 a.m.
From: William Degnan
Of note...
Anyone know what the two indicator panels on top of the large blue box in the
center of this one:
ftp://jhoppe.ddns.net/vcfb2105/content/TB8A3377_large.html
are? They look to be PDP-10 {something}, given what appear to be two rows of
36 lights on the bottom (although they are hard to see clearly), but I
couldn't find a panel like that in my PDP-10 manual.
Noel
4 Nov
4 Nov
8:07 a.m.
Anyone know what the two indicator panels on top of
the large blue box in the
center of this one:
ftp://jhoppe.ddns.net/vcfb2105/content/TB8A3377_large.html
are? They look to be PDP-10 {something}, given what appear to be two rows
of
36 lights on the bottom (although they are hard to see clearly), but I
couldn't find a panel like that in my PDP-10 manual.
Noel
11:18 a.m.
From: P Gebhardt
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 8:08 AM
Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Anyone know what the two indicator panels on top
of the large blue box in the
> center of this one:
> are? They look to be PDP-10 {something}, given
what appear to be two rows of
> 36 lights on the bottom (although they are hard to see clearly), but I
> couldn't find a panel like that in my PDP-10 manual.
If think that the left console panel is from a PDP-15.
I see blue consoles from a PDP-15 and a DECsystem-10 (KI-10).
As for the two panels Noel asked about, I've had a look at the chassis which
are part of our DEC-1070, and have eliminated the following possibilities:
Only 3 rows of lights:
ME10 memory
MF10 memory
TD10 DECtape controller
5 rows of lights:
KI-10 CPU bays
RH10 Massbus interface
DAS33 memory buffer
DL10
DC10
4 rows of lights, but do not match:
RP10C disk controller
DF10C
DA28-C
RC10
Since they're narrow, they're probably something from a KA-10 system, but I
have no idea what.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
11:53 a.m.
> are? They
look to be PDP-10 {something}, given what appear to be two rows of
> 36 lights on the bottom (although they are hard to see clearly), but I
> couldn't find a panel like that in my PDP-10 manual.
2:46 p.m.
On 2015-11-04 20:18, Rich Alderson wrote:
From: P Gebhardt
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 8:08 AM
Noel Chiappa wrote:
They could be from a PDP-11 or PDP-8 as well. The RP11 controller, for
example, I seem to remember had panels like that.
Can't recall any PDP-8 stuff at the moment, but I'm pretty sure I've
seen something like that for a PDP-8 as well.
Johnny
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> Anyone know what the two indicator panels on
top of the large blue box in the
> center of this one:
> are? They look to be PDP-10 {something},
given what appear to be two rows of
> 36 lights on the bottom (although they are hard to see clearly), but I
> couldn't find a panel like that in my PDP-10 manual.
If think that the left console panel is from a
PDP-15.
I see blue consoles from a PDP-15 and a DECsystem-10 (KI-10).
As for the two panels Noel asked about, I've had a look at the chassis which
are part of our DEC-1070, and have eliminated the following possibilities:
Only 3 rows of lights:
ME10 memory
MF10 memory
TD10 DECtape controller
5 rows of lights:
KI-10 CPU bays
RH10 Massbus interface
DAS33 memory buffer
DL10
DC10
4 rows of lights, but do not match:
RP10C disk controller
DF10C
DA28-C
RC10
Since they're narrow, they're probably something from a KA-10 system, but I
have no idea what. 
5 Nov
5 Nov
4:51 a.m.
From: Rich Alderson: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:18 AM
4 rows of lights, but do not match:
RP10C disk controller
DF10C
DA28-C
RC10
Since they're narrow, they're probably something from a KA-10 system, but I
have no idea what.
A higher resolution picture:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5wSsDk45Uo8/VhUNSLZw6ZI/AAAAAAAAAOY/rUzA…
The tags say
DEC PDP-10 - tape controller, 1973
retrocmp.com, c-c-g.de
DEC PDP-10 - disk controller, 1973
retrocmp.com, c-c-g.de
for what that's worth. Maybe the owner of the panels knows something?
Vince
6:23 a.m.
On 11/5/15 4:51 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
The tags say
DEC PDP-10 - tape controller, 1973
retrocmp.com, c-c-g.de
They are both disk controller panels.
The one marked tape controller has "sector word count"
in the upper right
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