So, the CHM has an RSTS-11 brochure:

   
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/pdp-11/Digital.PDP-11.1970.102646128.pdf

which shows in a couple of places (front cover, page 6, 7, 10, 11) an
indicator panel which I haven't been able to identify:
These look VERY posed, so don't be sure ANYTHING in the picture was a fully working system. If those panels look like something off a KA10 controller, then they very well could be.

Remember IBM and a few other vendors have had publications that had plywood mockups of systems that bore LITTLE resemblance to the production versions. Also, some IBM publications (where I'm more familiar with their models) had some photos of machines that probably were in-house prototypes that were quite different than the production version.

1970 was in the VERY early days of the PDP-11, and they may have hacked up device controls from other models with different word lengths, so as to have working gear for software development.

Jon

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