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BlinkenBone - some console panels

Panel galerie

Well, here no words are needed: just enjoy pictures of some console panels I'd like to re-animate. (I just can get enough of these!)

DEC PDP-11

You will see the PDP-11/40 console almost everywhere on these pages, so it's suppressed here. By the way, it is owned by CCG.

Here comes my own PDP-11/70:

I've played with it before, see here.

This is my PDP-11/05:

DEC PDP-12

This is from CCG collection:

DEC PDP-10 KI10 processor panel

This is my preciousssss. I'm working on it at the moment.

DEC PDP-10 controller header panel

I have also a few header panels from controller racks. There's a total of four, here is a disk controller panel:

These have about 100 lamps, and no switches. One sunday I played with the lamps: 80% of them are burned!

DEC PDP-15 controller header panel

I'm not really sure whether this is a '15.  It looks like the PDP-10 header panel, but has many 9 bit width display fields. 9 = 18/2? Must be a tape controller:

Nixdorf

From CCG collection, an unknown Nixdorf computer. A german business system, so the design is boring:

Honeywell H632

Also from CCG collection. One of my favorites!

The oldest console panel I've seen so far, and cruelly cut out of the system. This looks like work:

IBM System/3, model 5410

 Also from CCG collection.

IBM 360/91

Finally: The mother of all Blinkenlight's! Located in the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, Ca.