On 06/14/2020 03:52 AM, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
Hi all.
I recently bought a mystery blinkenlight panel. Closer inspection reveals it
was manufactured by Intel in the early 70’s (1973), and some people on the book
of faces suggested it was part of a “device multiplexer”(?)
I’m 95% confident it’s not strictly a “computer” blinkenlight panel, but rather
an attached device, but that still hasn’t helped me narrow down what exactly it
was from.
I’ve not seen any early Intel stuff as rack-mount, so i’m wondering if it was a
prototype, or maybe a piece of internal/non-commercial hardware for Intel's own
use.
I’m hoping someone here might be able to shed some light on this mystery.
Pictures: https://imgur.com/gallery/lD74oSy <https://imgur.com/gallery/lD74oSy>
Any reason the picture is upside down? Also, blurry, so it
is hard to read the labels. it seems to have two 9-bit
bytes and a memory address.
Jon
