A few months back you might recall the road trip I did to recover a Foxboro 
FOX-2, a rebadged
PDP-11 that ran the furnace oxygenation plant at the BHP steel mill at Port 
Kembla here in Oz
during the 1970s.

I had thought the machine was an 11/20 with a custom FOX front panel that 
(apart from the
Foxboro lime green colour trim) had only 16 address switches instead of the 18 
found on that
machine, and that there might be two more vacant switch locations on the front 
panel PCB
to be found lurking underneath when it came time to disassembling.

But having just seen the PDP-11/15 up on eBay, I now believe that is what the 
FOX-2 really is.
This page (http://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/20) reckons the /15 is just an OEM 
version of the
/20 but I'm wondering if there are any more differences apart from the lack of 
the two high
address switches? (Presumably the /15 could not run one of those KT-11 paging 
units as was
seen on that recent eBay 11/20)

Steve.

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