New acquisition, and question

From: Rick Murphy <rmurphy_at_itm-inst.com>
Date: Thu Oct 10 20:41:00 2002

At 09:15 PM 10/10/02 -0400, Megan wrote:

> >Well, the PDP8/e has 2 rows of lights (Address, Data) on the panel
> too...
> >Or is that not what you meant.
>
>I'm familiar with the 8/E, I have one (and a LAB-8/E, too). This has
>more rows of lights than an 8/E,F,M. I don't have it in front of me,
>but I'm sure it had like 4 rows of lights (like an 8/I,L) and no
>rotary switch.

It could be what's referred to as a MARS (Memory Address and Register
Status) panel.
The only one of those I've ever seen was at our PDP8 FS lab in Parker
Street.
It's a full-height rack panel (same height as the 8/E) with several
rows of lights for PC/AC/MQ/etc.
         -Rick
Received on Thu Oct 10 2002 - 20:41:00 BST