Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> On Jan 16, 22:54, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > Anybody know what DEC item these are from? I got a bunch of them
> > (at the time, in a little foam "holder" in a box) a few months ago
> > with a big batch of PDP-11 stuff, but my dog got ahold of it and
> > they're now all over a section of the carpet in my garage..
> >
> > http://www.mrbill.net/~mrbill/bulbs.jpg
>
> They look like the panel bulbs for a PDP-8, which are the same as for
> things like a DX11 or RK05 drives. Did the earliest Unibus machines also
> use bulbs or were they always LEDs? Anyway, they're worth saving. The
> correct bulbs are hard to get now (the types I've found available are
> higher current than the correct ones).
>
We replaced all the bulbs in our RK05s early on with leds. They are
still
going strong after 2 decades.
-nick
Received on Thu Jan 17 2002 - 09:20:16 GMT
