Front panels

[Charles Anthony]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Michael Thompson <
michael.99.thompson at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 13:11:29 -0700
> > From: Charles Anthony <charles.unix.pro at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Front panels
> >
> > The front panel I want to build is for my DPS8-M (aka Honeywell 6180)
> > emulator.
> >
> >
> >
> http://8bitaficionado.com/2010/09/22/multics-honeywell-6180-mainframe-panel-on-ebay/
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > -- Charles
> >
>
> That is only one of two panels on the Honeywell processors. There was
> another one on the other CPU door. There is are three rollers with an
> encoding switchs to change what the lights were displaying. Moving the
> roller changed the text that was visible in the window below the light
> bulbs and told you what each light meant.
>
>
For my purposes, I'm interested in the lower half of the pictured panel --
the "Display" -- which showed the PC and registers. My emulated panel can
be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkjvx5A7vJw.

-- Charles