DEC Tubemate?!? (was Re: Any word on OS/2 for PDP-11?)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:37:59PM -0800, Roger Ivie wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >Hmm... I'm having problems envisioning it... I don't think of the
> >DECmate or the uVAX2K as having a "front panel".  Do you mean that there
> >was a wee CRT behind the flap, in the 5.25"-wide space where the drives
> >go?

> I mean that it had a tube in place of the front of the box. There were
> no drives poking out the front. The tube took up the whole front of the
> box:
> 
>     +------------------------------------+
>     |+----------------------------------+|
>     ||                                  ||
>     ||  wide, short tube                ||
>     ||                                  ||
>     |+----------------------------------+|
>     +------------------------------------+
> 
> Thinking about it, it might have been just a monitor intended to stack
> on top of the DECmate III; that wouldn't need drives or much inside
> besides the power supply and the tube.

Ah... that makes a lot of sense - I suppose the advantage would be modularity.

OTOH, a VR201 sits on the top box quite nicely, and was probably already
a standard product by then.

Interesting prototype to hear about.  It's a new on one me.

-ethan

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