On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Bill Pechter wrote:
> > DECdatasystem 570.
>
> That was one of the later 11/70's and (in my opinion) one of the nicest
> packaged ones to work on.
I had never seen one before, but had been told about its front panel. I
thought it would clash, being mostly white in a black/maroon rack. I am
pleasantly surprised with how pretty it is.
> Great find.
Now I just have to find the cards for it...and someone to help me remove
it from the back of my truck.
> As far as marketting... who knows. They never made much sense to me.
But the DECdatasystems are a later packaging, right? If so, how late in
the life of the 11/70 are we talking? 1908-ish? I'm wondering what
peripherals I need to look for for it to be a historically accurate,
catalog-perfect configuration.
I'm guessing an RM03/05/80 would be OK for disks (and easier to handle
than a RPxx!), but I'm not sure what tape or other things should go with
it.
That brings me to another question. Is there anywhere that I can easily
find either the introduction date of DEC peripherals or (even better) the
date range during which the peripherals were sold? Google works about 20%
of the time for this, and it's slow going. I didn't live through the
PDP-11 heyday like some of you, :-) and it's hard for me to get a good
idea of what was intended to go with what.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_subatomix.com
Received on Sun Feb 24 2002 - 11:02:17 GMT