At 10:55 AM 11/2/2002 -0800, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> > The board in the center row, right-hand side is the TTY interface board.
> > The long vector hardware is most probably that odd board added in the
> > core memory section, top right in the picture.
>
>I'll try to get more and better pictures (Tom requested them too) so we
>can get a better look. Trouble is the machines are tucked away in a tight
>area. It'll be a few days before I can get out to the warehouse and pull
>them out.
>
>In the meantime, here's a link to pictures I took when I first brought
>home my PDS-1D:
>
>http://siconic.com/computers/Imlac/
Ok. So the things that I notice from those pics are that there seems to be some
sort of board mounted on the back, which I've never seen on another
mathine. The
tube is mounted in a horizontal fashion instead of vertically, the
programmer's console
is a different style than any of the ones Bob or I have in that it has a
selector knob.
The photo here
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.radio-active.net.au/web/history/imlac.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.radio-active.net.au/web/history/w2500.html&h=388&w=253&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dimlac%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8
also seems to have that knob. The next time that you get the chance, could
you take
a couple of closeup pics of the console for me. I would like to see what
all is on it that
ours do not have. Lastly, it looks like there is a wire wrap board in the
long vector
section of the machine (300-304).
>The idea is to get them working at some point. I'm hoping Greg Thomson
>(Maze author referenced previously) will take an interest in helping me
>out. It'd be really cool to have a real game of Maze in my garage with
>the original author ;)
Indeed!
--tom
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Received on Sat Nov 02 2002 - 15:52:00 GMT
