On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Guy Sotomayor wrote: Someday I'll have an 11/70. I think that one is the prettiest of the line. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

A really nice 11/70... I always thought the DS570 was the best 11/70 from a looks standpoint outside the 11/74 BA11-CM they used to replace the 11/70 in Princeton's DEC office in 1984... The corporate cabs just looked nice and they didn't have the problems of the broken black and white cabinet plastic panels falling off. Bill On 2/1/07, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:

On Feb 1, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: Ahh, a decdatasystem 570! I have one of those as well. Yours is an absolutely gorgeous system; it looks very well-maintained and nicely set up. I note that you've got Emulex SC-72 SMD controllers...I've got one of those, and will hopefully be installing it in my machine soon. How easy are they to get running? Here's my (similar but smaller) machine: http://www.neurotica.com/albums/pdp1170/tn/pdp1170.jpg.html -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL

On 2/2/07, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote: I'd be happy with a DS570 - my 11/70s are in H960 and lack the nice frontpanel (though Jay West was nice enough to give me an old frontpanel PCB minus the switches he'd harvested). Someday, I'll track down a some defunct switchpanels and harvest enough parts to get one or two frontpanels working (the circuit is quite straightforward and easy to follow). The switch bodies are not the difficult part to find - they are rather ordinary C&K bodies, but the mounting ears are a bit unusual to me - they are meant to snap into an approx 10mm square hole for support, with only the switch leads going through the PCB. The 11/70 frontpanel assembly has a perforated metal bar to accept these switches. On top of that, of course, are the DEC triangular toggles themselves, but they mount to standard C&K toggle pivots - one could transplant things back and forth to reconstruct a frontpanel, presuming one has a source for the snap-in switch bodies to begin with (all of my C&K switches are the PCB-through-hole-mount). Color mismatch or not, it's still a nice size... I have no corporate cabs :-( I've had machines in places where I could have had several corporate cabs, but only enough vertical clearance for one H960 (tiny under-shop-floor basement in a 19th century building). -ethan