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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