PDP 8/L console

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Thu May 18 12:32:34 2000

My PDP 8/L that I recently acquired, has a cable that i assume is for
the console terminal. It has a 9 pin male connector with only pins
1 through 6 present. Is this a standard serial connection? This was
a papertape based system, so it may have been connected to a teletype
ASR 33. Will I need to locate something that can do 110 baud to use
as a console?

Also, I'm very curious about the other cables comming from the 8/L...
I have 6 flat black cables, similar to ribbon cable but thicker, with
9 'wires' on each cable. possibly each 'wire' is something similar
to coax, but i'm not sure... Each pair of these ribbon-like cables
go together into a centronics 36 pin male connector. thus there are
3 centronics connectors, which are labeled: "A D36", "B D35", "C D34".
Any clues as to what this might be for?

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Thu May 18 2000 - 12:32:34 BST