19 Feb
2018
19 Feb
'18
6:51 a.m.
From: geneb
they've got a DPS-8 maintenance/operator/? panel
... It's fully
operational and is connected via some magic hardware to a Raspberry Pi
running a Multics emulator.
Technically it's an H6180; the DPS-8 is a later generation of hardware in the
same family. More here:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/multics/MulticsPanels.html
Alas, as can be seen there, the DPS-8's don't have those wonderful panels
with a zillion lights and switches; just boring modern machines! :-)
Noel
21 Feb
21 Feb
6:45 a.m.
On Feb 19, 2018, at 6:51 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Really the H6180 looks a lot more like the DPS-8 I remember. We had a single CPU Dev
system, and a 4 CPU Production system running GCOS-8. I thought I might have some
drawings of the panels, but if I do they?re in the garage somewhere. Another site, had a
DPS-8000, our site was pretty old, and had been upgraded over time. For example the
memory cabinets were mostly empty, due to upgrades.
Zane
From: geneb
they've got a DPS-8 maintenance/operator/?
panel ... It's fully
operational and is connected via some magic hardware to a Raspberry Pi
running a Multics emulator.
Technically it's an H6180; the DPS-8 is a later generation of hardware in the
same family. More here:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/multics/MulticsPanels.html
Alas, as can be seen there, the DPS-8's don't have those wonderful panels
with a zillion lights and switches; just boring modern machines! :-)
Noel 
12:48 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 6:45 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
The DPS8 and DPS8/M did away with the blinking light panels. However, it
was possible to mix 6080 and DPS8 CPUs in a system; you may be remembering
a 6080 that was the original CPU in a system that had acquired DPS8 CPU and
SCU upgrades?
-- Charles
On Feb 19, 2018, at 6:51 AM, Noel Chiappa via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Really the H6180 looks a lot more like the DPS-8 I remember. We had a
single CPU Dev system, and a 4 CPU Production system running GCOS-8. I
thought I might have some drawings of the panels, but if I do they?re in
the garage somewhere. Another site, had a DPS-8000, our site was pretty
old, and had been upgraded over time. For example the memory cabinets were
mostly empty, due to upgrades.
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