"Plug and Play" adapter for PDP-11/70 panel - BlinkenBone update

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Jan 17 12:45:19 CST 2019


    > From: Jorg Hoppe

    > Now you can painlessly plug a physical 11/70 panel

So I'm curious about the flat cables to the -11/70 console, which have been
taken apart into individual conductors. I am wondering why?

This doesn't seem to have been done because you needed to re-order them (they
turn back into flat cables before they go into the connectors - although
perhaps you cross-connected a pair of wires)? Easier access to individual
signals for debugging?

Needless to say, if people who want to build one of these also have to do
this, I wouldn't exactly call it 'painless'! :-)

	Noel


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