Attaching DEC Handles, the Right Way

[Systems Glitch]

> It's one of these:
> http://www.grommetmachinery.com/stimpson-479-machine.html

Glad to hear it was saved from the scrap heap! A very cool machine, reminds me of the manual punch we had to go along with our trip punch at a previous job.

> Stu Phillips, a friend of ours did the insertion of metal metal Southco 
> extractor handles on our boards for the Microdata 1600. 

> That business came from him owning an injection molding machine and 
> someone asking him to make the handles.

The blue handles on the MDB Unibus prototyping boards I've got are Stu Phillips handles. They are indeed riveted on, but I don't know if MDB did their own riveting. With the amount of DEC-compatible stuff they made, it wouldn't surprise me.

Thanks,
Jonathan