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by Bill Degnan - 05/12/2017 08:36 |
![]() The Varian Data Machines 620/L Front Panel, circa 1970. Click image for larger view.
![]() Here is a early 1970's Burroughs B1700 Front Panel. Click image for larger view.
![]() Unidentified DEC UNIBUS MASP panel. Click image for larger view.
The following are not computer front panels, but they're still interesting... ![]() Unidentified (Control Data 1700? ... I wish!) Manual/Automatic Switch Control panel. Click image for larger view.
![]() GTE Remote Simulator Panel. Click image for larger view.
While we're at it, here is a portable cash register processor tester. Could this be a 4004-driven microprocessor? ![]() GTE Comp-Acct Cash Processor Control Panel. Whatever that is. Could it have a 4004 inside? Need to check. Click image for larger view.
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by Bill Degnan - 08/24/2017 21:43 |
Received this message from Chris Kapral. Thanks Chris, very relevant info to share.
".. Re "Front Panels", 5/12/17: GTE Comp-Acct, based in Cincinnati, made a system for restaurants around 1975 based on the AMD2901 processor. It controlled a bunch of cash registers and did accounting and inventory functions for the restaurant. I worked on it briefly in 1976. I remember seeing them in the Burger King in Redwood City, CA into the 1980s. I never saw the panel shown in the picture. .. Reply |
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by Bill Degnan - 10/17/2017 08:37 |
Did some digging and found that MASP stands for Memory address stop. the front panel is apparently a Formation Inc, F 801 PROGRAM DEBUG CONSOLE (1975). With this a person can create an interrupt to stop a process at a given memory location, and then display the last 16 addresses that appeared on the UNIBUS. One would have installed this console onto a DEC rack along with a UNIBUS system.
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by Bill Degnan - 10/23/2017 23:12 |
New photos of an actual Varian 620L System (10/22/17)
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