Unknown Intel blinkenlight panel circa 1973

[Jon Elson]

On 06/14/2020 03:52 AM, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
> Hi all.
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> I recently bought a mystery blinkenlight panel. Closer inspection reveals it was manufactured by Intel in the early 70’s (1973), and some people on the book of faces suggested it was part of a “device multiplexer”(?)
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> I’m 95% confident it’s not strictly a “computer” blinkenlight panel, but rather an attached device, but that still hasn’t helped me narrow down what exactly it was from.
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> I’ve not seen any early Intel stuff as rack-mount, so i’m wondering if it was a prototype, or maybe a piece of internal/non-commercial hardware for Intel's own use.
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> I’m hoping someone here might be able to shed some light on this mystery.
>
> Pictures: https://imgur.com/gallery/lD74oSy <https://imgur.com/gallery/lD74oSy>
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Any reason the picture is upside down?  Also, blurry, so it 
is hard to read the labels.  it seems to have two 9-bit 
bytes and a memory address.

Jon