DEC banner panel - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Dec 2016

Re- the PDP-8 one I just scanned..    On the plastic  thing on H-960  these 
metal logo plates  stick  right into the  front into  the recess with gummy 
stuff on the back of the metal.

Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  

In a message dated 12/26/2016 10:56:12 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim,  
ajp166 at verizon.net writes:

On  12/26/2016 04:14 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
...
  On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:07  PM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net>  wrote:
...
 >> On Dec  26, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Tony Duell
<ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>> I hadn't  realised that they were printed on aluminium. Ouch!. I also
>>  don't know how they are fixed to the plastic header panel, my  plastic
>> panel is 'empty' and I don't see any adhesive residue.  Maybe some
>> kind of double-sided tape?
> No, the  aluminum is adhesive-backed (with a rather potent adhesive).
> It's  similar to what you see in serial number plates on machinery.   I
> have somewhere a PDP-11 banner plate by itself, with the wax  paper
> backing covering the adhesive still in place.  If your  plastic bracket  is
...
   clean looking,
it may never have had the panel  stuck to it in the first
 place.  Odd...The chap who gave me  the rack removed the panel (and the fan,
 and the stabiliser feet) for  transport and gave me a box with them in. He
 commented that as I was  putting a PDP8e in it, I'd probably not want the
 banner that was there  (I am pretty sure that the original contents of  this
...
  H960 was some  kind of PDP11 system).

 Anyway, spend the day cleaning dust off  parts, stripping the fan and  power
...
  controller, etc. I did not notice  any adhesive
residue on the plastic  header
...
  panel. And I think I would  have done.

 So perhaps the header was blank, or the banner just  pushed in (perhaps
 somebody forgot to remove the backing  paper...).

 -tony

Sounds like the banner plate  for my 11T (Qbus 11 in a 50inch rack) the
banner holder was such that it  could slid in from the end if you took
off the plastic end stop.  It  has the PDP-11 in in the older reds scheme
on thin maybe .040"  aluminium.

Allison