: Unknown Intel blinkenlight panel circa 1973

Camiel Vanderhoeven camiel at vaxbarn.com
Sun Jun 14 15:26:20 CDT 2020


That would my my guess as well; add-on semiconductor memory for a 16-bit minicomputer. I know Intel made the in-4011 for the PDP-11, but I never saw a picture of it.

Camiel

> On Jun 14, 2020, at 6:46 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Add on  solid state memory unit  some semi companies made tjem. For add to Dec and dg?  Dunno. A guess
> ....   ed smecc
> On Sunday, June 14, 2020 Joshua Rice via cctalk <Rice43 at btinternet.com; cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Hi all. 
> 
> 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”(?)
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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>
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Josh Rice



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