On Dec 17, 2012, at 12:06 PM, mc68010 wrote: The issue is that the Symbolics machines of the 36xx generations (L & G machines) didn't have a monitor per se. They had a "console". There was one cable from the CPU to the "console" which contained the monitor. The keyboard & mouse plugged into the console. It's a fairly complicated beast (see http://www.loper-os.org/?p=52). There does exist a "console box" (see http://www.asl.dsl.pipex.com/symbolics/photos/IO/console-box.html) but that only allows you to attach the keyboard and mouse when you're using a color monitor (which unfortunately the 3620 doesn't support?not enough slots). You could contact David Schmidt (sales at symbolics-dks.com) to see if he'd be willing to sell a "naked" 17" or 19" monochrome console. TTFN - Guy

Well, given it had a label giving '026' (IIRC was it '029') codes, I would assume it puched normal 80 column Hollerith cards. I think I used one like it years ago (the hand punch I _own_ is one of the ones with 12 buttons, one for ewach row), Anyway, IIRC, you set the characcter you want to puch on the upper dial and press Punch to punch it. That advances the card one column. The 'S' key ('space') advances withotu punching. The 'T' key ('tab') moves to tyhe next tab stop position, those are the pointers on the lower dial -tony