>On Tuesday, July 26th, 2016 at 0:05:48 -0500, Glen Slick wrote:
I just acquired a PDP-11/84 that didn't come with a console panel. That should have a 25-pin D-shell connector for the console serial port, a baud rate selection switch, and a forced dialog switch, with a single 20-pin connector for a ribbon cable that attaches to the KDJ11-B and MDM. The part number should be 54-16508-01 according to the manuals I have seen, although the only hits I find online have it transposed as 54-16058-01.
I am probably wrong, but the part number on the cabinet kit for the serial port with the 25-pin D-shell connector for the PDP-11/83 that I have is 54-16023. About 1/2" to the right is a second number 54-16022-01C1. These numbers are on the solder side of the PCB board. Also stamped on this board in ink is the number 7021150-02-Rev A1. In addition, there are TWO ribbon cables which connect to the quad board, a 20-pin cable AND a 10-pin cable. I may have another cabinet kit somewhere that looks the same at first glance, but has different part numbers. If I find it, I will reply with those numbers. As far as I can remember, all of the quad PDP-11/73 and PDP-11/83 CPU boards use the same cabinet kit since the only differences between the two boards is the J11 chip version and the clock crystal which supports running the PDP-11/83 board at 18 GHz rather than 15 GHz for the PDP-11/73 with an older version of the J11 chip that had a problem with floating point when run at the higher speed. Finally, since the quad CPU board for the PDP-11/83 is the identical board used in the PDP-11/84, I would expect that the same cabinet kit would be used for both systems, but naturally I could be wrong.
If you have one available let me know offline in private email how much you would want for one. I'm located in the Seattle, WA area. -Glen
If you can't find a cabinet kit somewhere, let ne know in a few weeks and I will look to see if I can find the second one. I am in Toronto, so shipping would be much more expensive outside the USA. Jerome Fine
