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Subject: [Leica] Some PDP-1 Phtos
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 22:03:51 -0500
References: <42ADB707-40E0-4A04-87BD-D1E9334FE0FC@acm.org>

!@#$%  I hit "Send" instead of "Spelling".

That's  much more primitive than I expected.  But I was first introduced 
to the PDP-8, several generations more refined.  Thanks for sharing the 
images.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/7/2016 8:58 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
> Granted, not as sexy as airplanes, but thats to what I have access>
>
> 1. Front view of computer.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000046.jpg.html 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000046.jpg.html>
>
> 2. Close up of control panel
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000041.jpg.html 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000041.jpg.html>
>
> 3. Display unit, light pen, and typewriter. The light pen was common
> before the mouse became popular. A fiber optic cable runs from the 
> hand-held
> device to a photo-multiplier (very sensitive light detector). Because the 
> display unit scans and can plant a dot every microsecond, the time of day 
> when the pen sees light tells the computer the coordinates of where it is 
> pointing.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000038.jpg.html 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1000038.jpg.html>
>
> 4. View of the cabinets from the side. As I said before, about the size of 
> three refrigerators paced side by side.
>
> Please look large.
>
> Herb
>
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
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>
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