[Leica] Some PDP-1 Phtos

[Adam Bridge]

That’s pretty terrific, Herb! Thank you.

So many “features” of that control panel that were carried forward through various DEC designs (until the VAX). Now I’m going to have to look up the PDP-1 instruction set! My Apple Watch could probably run a PDP-1 emulator faster than the original! <grin> Certainly my iPhone can.

Great stuff.

Adam

> On Jul 7, 2016, at 6:58 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> 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>
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> 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
> 650.208.9417
> 
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