> > > > I find it odd that people want to have a lights-and-switches panel, but are > > prepared to totally > > adulterate the hardware of the machine that drives it. > > > Are you honestly suggesting that I should rebuild a PDP-11/70 > from things I have in my partsbin?
You have to admit it would be an interesting and educational project :-) > 'cause that is what it sounds like. No, not really. If you have a front panel from an otherwise non-existant machine then it makes sense to drive it any way you can. I was thinking more of the PDP12 that started this. -tony