Panaplex display history

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-05-30 19:40, tony duell wrote:
>>
>> LEDs themselves weren't all that much more costly than the typical pilot
>> lamp.  I recall sending $1 cash to Montsanto and receiving 2 red (was
>> there any other color?) LEDs in return in 1969.
>
> Is there a good reason why filament lamps were used on minicomputer
> front panels until the mid 1970s? Things like the PDP11/45, Philips P850, etc
> all used filament bulbs, not LEDs.

By the 11/70, as well as the PDP-8/M and PDP-8/F DEC had switched to 
LEDs. So they switched before 1975.

	Johnny

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