Your front panel is neat, the whole thing is neat. So, how about connecting
the front panel to my PDP8/A Omnibus? Does your PDP-8 have an Omnibus at
all or did you invent a completely different bus or no bus at all?
Thanks,
-Gunther
Bob Armstrong wrote:
> Many of you have already heard of the SBC6120, our single board
> PDP-8/E clone that you can build from a kit. The SBC6120 now has
> a complete lights and switches front panel, and the entire assembly,
> including a hard disk drive, is about 9" by 15" and 2 1/2" thick and
> can be framed and hung on the wall like a painting.
>
> You can see a photo of Debee with one at
>
> http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/images/Debee%20and%20FP6120.jpg
>
> Everything is fully functional; all the lights and switches work
> as you'd expect and the SBC6120 is able to run most PDP-8 software
> including FOCAL and OS/8. You can read all about it on our web site
> at
>
> http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/SBC6120-2.htm
>
> and
>
> http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/SBC6120_Front_Panel.htm
>
> The entire project is open source, and you can download everything
> there is to know about the SBC6120 and front panel, including manuals,
> schematics, and firmware source code, from
>
> http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Download.htm
>
> If you like what you see then you can have one for your own wall,
> and we'd be happy to sell you a kit of parts to help you build one.
> Visit our web store for ordering information
>
> http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Store.htm
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Armstrong
--
Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
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Received on Fri Oct 24 2003 - 23:15:27 BST
