name that DEC control panel!

[Jeffrey Sharp]

On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, Heinz Wolter wrote:
> anyone know what machine this panel comes from? The seller claims it's a
> PDP-11 but I don't see enough bits.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2070195230

I saw this over on info-pdp11:

> Right you are.  This was DEC's first foray into microprocessors.  The
> CPU was an Intel 8008, which is why you see the lights grouped by 6 and 8.
> The 8008 only had a 14-bit address bus.
>
> I _think_ that it's just the control panel.  I never had one but I do
> remember them being sold around 1975 or so.  I might even have a
> brochure on it, but it would be rather deeply buried in the archives.

-- 
Jeffrey Sharp