23 Mar
2016
23 Mar
'16
7:21 p.m.
Hello Guys.
To say I'm pleased with the comments on the batch
just shipped would be an understatement.
However you cant just rest on your laurels.
_Batch now in production_
The next batch is already underway and the quantity increased to thirty,
It will consist of 8/e (A and B), 8/f and 8/m .All the artwork is done
and ready
I'm trying to get to a ship from stock situation but I keep getting
pre-orders (not that I mind!!)
_The PDP-8 Product Line So Far_
PDP-8/e (A) before the switch change
PDP-8/e (B) after the switch change
PDP-8/f
PDP-8/m
We also offer to change the address from the standard maynard to galway.
If you find any other address variations I'd be interested.to consider
them as well.
_PDP-8 New Products under consideration _
1. Front panels for any of the other PDP-8 models, Including the
Straight 8 but excluding PDP-8A.
2. Bezels either cast metal as existing or a tough plastic.
The metal ones are big and heavy and awkward to ship.
3. Programmers Console PCB (key and lamp unit) / emulator
4. Integrated version of 1 + 2 above
5. Integrated version of 1 + 2 + 3 above
_
__PDP-11 Product Line_
1. Artwork underway for 11/XX panels (11/70 style)
2. No launch date yet but not a long way off.
_DEC unlisted above or non CPU panels._
I'll look at anything DEC made that uses a flat substrate (Plastic,
Metal or Glass) and has screen printing
_Non DEC panels
_
I'd be intersted in panels from other makers using similar substrates
and screen printing.
I think thats the lot
Regards
Rod (Panelman) Smallwood
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25 Mar
25 Mar
1:28 a.m.
I received one of the new panels from Rob, and it is nearly indistinguishable from the
original. It captures the matte finish of the original exactly. Fantastic!
_PDP-8 New Products under consideration _
1. Front panels for any of the other PDP-8 models, Including the
Straight 8 but excluding PDP-8A.
I'd like to cast a vote for the PDP8/I. I have a machine with a completely trashed
panel, where the clear-coat has become crinkly, cracked, and dark.
I suspect there may be a market for these panels for simulator-backed front panel
reproductions. Oscar Vermuelen's excellent PiDP-8 uses a reduced-size PDP8/I panel,
but a full-sized replica would be even nicer. The PDP8/I has the most beautiful and
complete panel of any of the 8s, perhaps of any minicomputer.
--Bill
2:18 a.m.
Hi Bill
Thank you for the kind words.
What you have is Version 3. Version 1 shipped in limited quantities.
Version 2 never shipped because Chessie (My silk screen expert) and
I did not like what happend when we put matt black on the front.
I had to sit down and think about that one.
I have a real 8/m panel (Loaned by a kind list member)
Being as old as it was it was scratched in a few places.
I noticed that although it was not matt black on the front there was a
coating of some sort.
So we ordered some translucent ink. The result was awful.
It was good for covering the lamp holes on the back though.
Then something in my somewhat senior brain
(I started with papertape and punched cards)
Reminded me that you can get perspex with surface finishes.
So I get on the phone to my panel supplier and she sends me down some
samples.
One looks good so off down to the silk screen shop.
We put the normal semi gloss on the back and stuck it in the drier.
Then mins later Chessie fishes it out of the drier and says something
very unladylike,
Followed by It looks matt on the front. It really does!!
After that it was back to the normal six step screen - dry - screen process.
Why did the translucent ink not work? They don't make the right one anymore
because as we found out you can get etched silk finish perspex!!!
I always confuse 8/i and 8/L. Which one did you want?
I know Oscar and I'm sure he said he had no problem
with me doing full size panels as he only did the cut down version.
I'm now going to build for stock (8/e, 8/f and 8/m)
We have custom packaging so we can ship pre-packed same day.
Regards
Rod (Panelman) Smallwood
with me making full size panels
On 25/03/2016 08:28, William Maddox wrote:
I received one of the new panels from Rob, and it is
nearly indistinguishable from the original. It captures the matte finish of the original
exactly. Fantastic!
_PDP-8 New Products under consideration _
1. Front panels for any of the other PDP-8 models, Including the
Straight 8 but excluding PDP-8A.
I'd like to cast a vote for the PDP8/I. I
have a machine with a completely trashed panel, where the clear-coat has become crinkly,
cracked, and dark.
I suspect there may be a market for these panels for simulator-backed front panel
reproductions. Oscar Vermuelen's excellent PiDP-8 uses a reduced-size PDP8/I panel,
but a full-sized replica would be even nicer. The PDP8/I has the most beautiful and
complete panel of any of the 8s, perhaps of any minicomputer.
--Bill
26 Mar
26 Mar
12:02 a.m.
Hi, Rod.
I always confuse 8/i and 8/L. Which one did you want?
I know Oscar and I'm sure he said he had no problem with me doing full size panels as
he only did the cut down version.
The PDP-8/I. The 8/I panel has indicators for the multiplier-quotient register (for the
EAE), instruction and data fields, and the fully-decoded opcode.
Here's a photo, from David Gesswein's website:
http://www.pdp8.net/pdp8i/pics/pdp8i_frontpanel.shtm
--Bill
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