VCF-Berlin, 2015

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-11-04 20:18, Rich Alderson wrote:
> From: P Gebhardt
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 8:08 AM
>
> Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>>> Anyone know what the two indicator panels on top of the large blue box in the
>>> center of this one:
>
>>>    ftp://jhoppe.ddns.net/vcfb2105/content/TB8A3377_large.html
>
>>> are? They look to be PDP-10 {something}, given what appear to be two rows of
>>> 36 lights on the bottom (although they are hard to see clearly), but I
>>> couldn't find a panel like that in my PDP-10 manual.
>
>> If think that the left console panel is from a PDP-15.
>
> I see blue consoles from a PDP-15 and a DECsystem-10 (KI-10).
>
> As for the two panels Noel asked about, I've had a look at the chassis which
> are part of our DEC-1070, and have eliminated the following possibilities:
>
> Only 3 rows of lights:
> ME10 memory
> MF10 memory
> TD10 DECtape controller
>
> 5 rows of lights:
> KI-10 CPU bays
> RH10 Massbus interface
> DAS33 memory buffer
> DL10
> DC10
>
> 4 rows of lights, but do not match:
> RP10C disk controller
> DF10C
> DA28-C
> RC10
>
> Since they're narrow, they're probably something from a KA-10 system, but I
> have no idea what.

They could be from a PDP-11 or PDP-8 as well. The RP11 controller, for 
example, I seem to remember had panels like that.
Can't recall any PDP-8 stuff at the moment, but I'm pretty sure I've 
seen something like that for a PDP-8 as well.

	Johnny

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