Tom has seen a large share of Multics front panels, and here is his reply.
Nick, I can put you in touch, or you can contact the webmaster at
multicians.org (that is him) for further investigation.
Thanks for putting up the photos full resolution.
Jim
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Subject: Re: multics (possibly) front panel or 6180
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:05:58 -0400
From: Tom Van Vleck <>
To: Jim Stephens
It is clearly a maintenance panel from a 6000 series.
Since it says "APU" on the top and "PTW" and "SDW" it looks
like a Multics machine.
I agree we should find out more.
regards, tom
On Sep 10, 2010, at 4:40 AM, jim s wrote:
Is this possibly a 6000 series "front"
panel? It certainly looks like that.
Hopefully it is viewable from the links w/o facebook if you don't have it.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=213052&id=530841851&l=714eeed…
Also this photo
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs303.ash2/58384_429250116851_5…
it looks like one of the panels in this photo on the multicians site.
http://www.multicians.org/multics-stories.html
If so, sort of makes me sad.
This is from a classic computing collectors site.
It really looks promising. The fellow with the item is in Illinois.
Jim