On 10/23/2015 10:37 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: > On 10/23/2015 6:43 PM, Mike Ross wrote: > >> 1. A replacement perspex for a pdp-12; damaged in shipping :-( > > If you mean the plexiglass for the console, I might be able to help with > that. I thought at one point I was going to get an entire PDP-12 from > U. Wisconsin Comm. Arts, but when I showed up on the appointed day, it > had been dismantled - but I did get the backplanes with cards, and the > console, more or less intact, and the VR14 - just no racks or power > supply, RK05's (including their controller) or TU56. [I later obtained > and still have an entire PDP-12]. Unlike sending a DG terminal to NZ or > OZ, I suspect this would be more manageable. > > The IBM 1401 and 1410 and many other machines had plastic display panels > at various places - and even the main console - that allowed a lamp to > shine through at the desired places in front of lights, not unlike what > DEC did. >
D'oh - Mike, you had already described what the 1401 and 1410 had to a "T" - holes for individual lamps, with red or off-white display words that shone through. > JRJ >
