: Unknown Intel blinkenlight panel circa 1973

Jay Jaeger cube1 at charter.net
Mon Jun 15 10:19:11 CDT 2020


The IBM mainframe memory add ons  I was familiar with were from Itel rather than Intel.  I don’t see how intel could have had semi memory for mainframes in the early 1970s.

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> On Jun 15, 2020, at 8:32 AM, Joshua Rice via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Somehow it seems the thread got fragmented. I posted it to the other half of this thread.
> 
> Here’s a link to a high-quality picture of the front panel, straight from the listing. Turns out i’m crap at taking steady photos
> 
> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dysAAOSwqqJehZ-Y/s-l1600.jpg <https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dysAAOSwqqJehZ-Y/s-l1600.jpg>
> 
>> On Jun 15, 2020, at 1:15 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> 
>> It would be useful if the legends on the panel were actually readable by
>> mere mortals.
>> 
>> Intel Memory Systems was very big in the early-mod 1970s.  The reason
>> was pretty simple--they offered add-on memory for IBM S/370 and other
>> vendors cheaper than the OEMs could.
>> 
>> --Chuck
> 



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