2 Nov
2011
2 Nov
'11
11:50 p.m.
Here's a variation of the pdp 11/70 with a chocolate-brown and white color
scheme: http://661.org/images/csis1170.jpg
--
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?
3 Nov
3 Nov
1:59 a.m.
kool find
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:50 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>wrote:
Here's a variation of the pdp 11/70 with a chocolate-brown and white color
scheme: http://661.org/images/**csis1170.jpg<http://661.org/images/csis1170.jpg&…
--
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?
3:41 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 08:50:17PM -0700, David Griffith wrote:
Here's a variation of the pdp 11/70 with a chocolate-brown and white
color scheme: http://661.org/images/csis1170.jpg
Neat. That goes into the folder of wierd front panel versions (I have collected
a few)
I guess this one has been fighting crime :D
/Pontus.
5 a.m.
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 08:50:17PM -0700, David
Griffith wrote:
URL?
--
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?
Here's a variation of the pdp 11/70 with a chocolate-brown and white
color scheme: http://661.org/images/csis1170.jpg
Neat. That goes into the folder of wierd front panel versions (I have collected
a few)
5:42 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 02:00:30AM -0700, David Griffith wrote:
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
My hard drive at home :) Luckily my backup-server was online. Here is what i got:
http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/front_paneler/
I've nicked these from various web pages, so if anyone wants me to remove
something, just let me know.
The blue PDP-8/m is my favourite. Imagine that in a desktop stand:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102630599
/P
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 08:50:17PM -0700, David
Griffith wrote:
URL?
Here's a variation of the pdp 11/70 with a chocolate-brown and white
color scheme: http://661.org/images/csis1170.jpg
Neat. That goes into the folder of wierd front panel versions (I have collected
a few) 
9:30 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
My hard drive at home :) Luckily my backup-server was
online. Here is what i got:
http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/front_paneler/
I've nicked these from various web pages, so if anyone wants me to remove
something, just let me know.
The blue PDP-8/m is my favourite. Imagine that in a desktop stand:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102630599
I really like the lime green colour-co-ordinated model PDP-12 you guys
have at Update:
http://www.update.uu.se/admin/PDP-12-Update-Uppsala-liten.jpeg
Really stylish, very 1960s/70s... does that one come with free sun glasses? :)
--
Mark Benson
http://www.DECtec.info
10:53 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:30:00PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
I really like the lime green colour-co-ordinated model PDP-12 you guys
have at Update:
http://www.update.uu.se/admin/PDP-12-Update-Uppsala-liten.jpeg
Really stylish, very 1960s/70s... does that one come with free sun glasses? :)
It is lovely isn't it :) We are currently brining it back to life. The PSU is
bad and some boards have gone sour as well.
Cheers,
Pontus.
11:18 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:30:00PM +0000, Mark Benson
wrote:
What kind of boards went sour?
Ed
--
Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email.
I really like the lime green colour-co-ordinated model PDP-12 you guys
have at Update:
http://www.update.uu.se/admin/PDP-12-Update-Uppsala-liten.jpeg
Really stylish, very 1960s/70s... does that one come with free sun
glasses? :)
It is lovely isn't it :) We are currently brining it back to life. The PSU
is
bad and some boards have gone sour as well.
11:47 a.m.
On 11/03/2011 09:30 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
I really like the lime green colour-co-ordinated model
PDP-12 you guys
have at Update:
http://www.update.uu.se/admin/PDP-12-Update-Uppsala-liten.jpeg
Really stylish, very 1960s/70s... does that one come with free sun glasses? :)
I have a rack top header panel from a PDP-12 in that color scheme.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
10:30 a.m.
My hard drive at home :) Luckily my backup-server was
online. Here is what i
got:
http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/front_paneler/
Hey, there's one of mine on there!
I didn't own the UCC 8/L when that photo was taken, but I have owned it for
a few years now. Last time I checked, it worked, at least most of the time :-).
I've wondered what was up with the hodge-podge of switch colors. That thing
has somehow ended up with nearly every shade I've ever seen on an 8, except
the blue and green of the industrial stuff, and the white of the 8/S and
straight 8.
Even the brown of the 8/S and straight-8 is in there!
Vince
10:52 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:30:50AM -0700, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
I'm a bit jealous, the 8/l is neat and oddballs are always fun.
My hard drive
at home :) Luckily my backup-server was online. Here
is what i got:
http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/front_paneler/
Hey, there's one of mine on there!
I didn't own the UCC 8/L when that photo was taken, but I have owned it for
a few years now. Last time I checked, it worked, at least most of the time :-). I've wondered what was up with the hodge-podge of
switch colors. That thing
has somehow ended up with nearly every shade I've ever seen on an 8, except
the blue and green of the industrial stuff, and the white of the 8/S
and straight 8.
Even the brown of the 8/S and straight-8 is in there!
Well they break easily, I'm guessing your l had some friends give up their
parts.
/P
2:22 p.m.
New subject: Switch paddles was Re: another weird pdp 11/70 color scheme
From: "Pontus Pihlgren": Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:52 AM
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:30:50AM -0700, Vincent
Slyngstad wrote:
Yeah -- 7 or 8 different friends, from the look of things.
Vince
I've wondered what was up with the
hodge-podge of switch colors. That thing
has somehow ended up with nearly every shade I've ever seen on an 8, except
the blue and green of the industrial stuff, and the white of the 8/S
and straight 8.
Even the brown of the 8/S and straight-8 is in there!
Well they break easily, I'm guessing your l had some friends give up their
parts. 
11:07 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
The blue PDP-8/m is my favourite. Imagine that in a
desktop stand:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102630599
That's a slick stand. I don't have an -8/M, but if I did, that would
be really neat to have sitting next to a VT52.
I wasn't able to find any other pictures of it. Has anyone here seen
the desktop tilt housing up close?
-ethan
11:40 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:07:08AM -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Pontus Pihlgren
<pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
It's a promotional picture, I'm guessing this is just like the 8/I pedistal, a
one-off that never sold.
http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/windowslivewriterpdp8is-2c…
I'm hoping to be proven wrong though :)
/P
The blue PDP-8/m is my favourite. Imagine that in
a desktop stand:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102630599
That's a slick stand. I don't have an -8/M, but if I did, that would
be really neat to have sitting next to a VT52.
I wasn't able to find any other pictures of it. Has anyone here seen
the desktop tilt housing up close?
11:53 a.m.
On 11/03/2011 11:40 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
It's a promotional picture, I'm guessing this
is just like the 8/I pedistal, a
one-off that never sold.
http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/windowslivewriterpdp8is-2c…
Beautiful!
--
Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
12:36 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 11/03/2011 11:40 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>
> It's a promotional picture, I'm guessing this is just like the 8/I
> pedistal, a
> one-off that never sold.
Perhaps it was. A shame if so.
I've seen that photo before - also very nice.
I don't relish the idea of trying to fabricate an -8/I backplane from
modules (to fabricate a pedestal-mounted -8/I), but one could
semi-easily cobble up an ad-hoc -8/M from an Omnibus backplane and
-8/M frontpanel board/plexi and make a table-top rack-mount enclosure
with modern tools.
I already have an SBC6120+FP6120 in a hand-made picture frame so I can
have the small-form-factor gee-whiz experience right now, but there's
still a lot of appeal in a desktop PDP-8 from original parts.
If I were any good at steel fabrication, I have access to the tools to
make something like that case. Perhaps it would be feasible from
aluminum with T-slot extrusions and cut panels. That's well within my
skillset.
-ethan
6:45 p.m.
> It's a
promotional picture, I'm guessing this is just like the 8/I
> pedistal, a
> one-off that never sold.
Perhaps it was. A shame if so. 
8:23 p.m.
> It's a promotional picture, I'm guessing
this is just like the 8/I
> pedistal, a
> one-off that never sold.
Perhaps it was. A shame if so.
4 Nov
4 Nov
4:09 a.m.
owtch
u think thats bad i missed out on a several 11/23's and 11/73's and
perifials manuals and software 2 yrs ago that all got bulldozed to the
ground along with 100,000 vacume tubes
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:23 PM, O. Sharp <ohh at panix.com> wrote:
It's a promotional picture, I'm guessing this is just like the 8/I
There is also the possibility that it never existed - just a model, an
empty box.
I can't speak to the 8/I specifically, but I have seen a pedestal-mount
PDP-11 - either an 11/40, or 11/45 - in the wild with my own eyes. It was
part of an early theatrical light-board controller, in Seattle's Opera
House some time during the '70s. I had a look at it during the mid-90s,
long after it was decommissioned, at the bottom of a long ramp wih other
assorted disused equipment (not to mention a supply of leaking sandbags). I
asked about it and was told the City was hanging onto it, the way they did
most of their retired equipment, "just in case".
One of my biggest regrets as a collector was that I didn't ask again about
it, or put a note on it, or something, since it was unceremoniously tossed
into a dumpster when they remodeled the building a few years later. I found
out too late, and even talked to one of my theatrical colleagues who
specifically remembered dumpstering it. Arrrrgh.
-O.-
> pedistal, a
> one-off that never sold.
>
Perhaps it was. A shame if so.
3 Nov
3 Nov
11:49 a.m.
On 11/03/2011 11:07 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Pontus
Pihlgren<pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
Ohhhh yes!
The blue PDP-8/m is my favourite. Imagine that in
a desktop stand:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102630599
That's a slick stand. I don't have an -8/M, but if I did, that would
be really neat to have sitting next to a VT52. I wasn't able to find any other pictures of it.
Has anyone here seen
the desktop tilt housing up close?
Heck, I've been a PDP-8 guy since I was in my teens, and I didn't
even know of the *existence* of that stand. I guess they didn't sell
many of them, which is a shame because it looks really nice!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
4:03 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
I never thought something like that was ever made. Very nifty. What's
your favorite pdp11 front panel?
--
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?
URL?
(alternate front panels)
My hard drive at home :) Luckily my backup-server was online. Here is
what i got:
http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/front_paneler/
I've nicked these from various web pages, so if anyone wants me to remove
something, just let me know.
The blue PDP-8/m is my favourite. Imagine that in a desktop stand:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102630599
4:45 p.m.
On 11/03/2011 09:03 PM, David Griffith wrote:
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
I was going to say that there was no clear winner, but then I remembered
the GT40 :)
http://www.gameclassification.com/files/machines/gt40_crop_2.jpg
I generally like the 11/05 and 11/10, but the GT40 adds something extra :)
Next in line is perhaps the 11/40 front panel for the KL10 front end:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/kl-10-fp-1.jpg
/P
The blue PDP-8/m is my favourite. Imagine that in
a desktop stand:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102630599
I never thought something like that was ever made. Very nifty.
What's your favorite pdp11 front panel?
5:17 p.m.
On 11/03/2011 09:45 PM, Pontus wrote:
I was going to say that there was no clear winner, but then I
remembered the GT40 :)
http://www.gameclassification.com/files/machines/gt40_crop_2.jpg
I generally like the 11/05 and 11/10, but the GT40 adds something
extra :)
Next in line is perhaps the 11/40 front panel for the KL10 front end:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/kl-10-fp-1.jpg
/P
Oh, I forgot about the industrial 11/40
http://lh4.ggpht.com/-DgRMx3wimg8/SDvV8htjyfE/AAAAAAAAAng/pZaLe3L0Nt4/PDP11…
Colorful!
/P
1:20 p.m.
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 5:36 PM
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: another weird pdp 11/70 color scheme
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Dave McGuire
<mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
Have a look at this page on my website (www.pdp-11.nl)
my projects --> homebrew "pdp8/I"
(especially at the end "Housing for the pdp8/i" )
- Henk
On 11/03/2011 11:40 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>
> It's a promotional picture, I'm guessing this is just like the 8/I
> pedistal, a
> one-off that never sold.
Perhaps it was. A shame if so.
I've seen that photo before - also very nice.
I don't relish the idea of trying to fabricate an -8/I backplane from
modules (to fabricate a pedestal-mounted -8/I), but one could
semi-easily cobble up an ad-hoc -8/M from an Omnibus backplane and
-8/M frontpanel board/plexi and make a table-top rack-mount enclosure
with modern tools.
I already have an SBC6120+FP6120 in a hand-made picture frame so I can
have the small-form-factor gee-whiz experience right now, but there's
still a lot of appeal in a desktop PDP-8 from original parts.
If I were any good at steel fabrication, I have access to the tools to
make something like that case. Perhaps it would be feasible from
aluminum with T-slot extrusions and cut panels. That's well within my
skillset.
-ethan 
1:47 p.m.
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On 11/03/2011 01:20 PM, Henk Gooijen wrote:
Have a look at this page on my website
I love the little dog at the bottom of the photo. Is he there to by
the equipment's guard dog?
BK
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