DEC top-mount corporate cabinet

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 2/28/22 14:47, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> On 2/28/22 14:07, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote:
>> On Saturday (02/26/2022 at 03:21PM -0500), pbirkel--- via cctalk wrote:
>>> A top-mount corporate cabinet looks like this:
>>> http://www.cosam.org/images/pdp11-23/front2.jpg  The "DECDatasystem"
>>> front-bar in the photo is over the 1U strengthener that braces the upper
>>> portion of the rack ... since there is no brace at the top (as yours 
>>> has).
>>> Your cabinet will work fine; in my experience RL02's are always tight 
>>> and
>>> fiddly any place but the top-spot.
>>
>> Is there a (hand-)book that describes the DEC cabinets and in 
>> particular this
>> "top-mount corporate cabinet"?  Is there a BA # for this cabinet?
> 
> There's a picture of one with the 11/24 in the small box in it on the 
> cover of the 1981 PDP11 Processor Handbook.  You can see from the spacer
> between the 11/24 and the bottom RL02 that it could also accommodate the
> larger box version of the 11/24.
> 
> bill
> 


As a follow on note....  That was what the very first personally owned
PDP-11 was.  It came to me from HighLights Magazine thru my job at the
University of Scranton.  I miss that machine. Sorry I ever got rid of
it.

bill