Recent content by toober

Mostly, yes, between main units of a system, the round things would be used, staring with the AN3100 series from World War 2 (OK, there were some stabs at standardization from the 1920s, and later the 1930s, but we can ignore them for now), but often within a unit, Ds would be used. If space or...

I found a bunch of these amongst some DEC cables. These are not real Digital, but are they clones/homebrews? Are these a standard serial cable using a Molex (as pictured) for some sort of PDP-8 serial option? The wire order is blue-white-red-green-orange-black. -- Will

In light of some changes I am making to my collection, I have decided to let loose of nearly all of my DEC documentation. I have a lot of it - and I mean hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pounds of it. Before you get too excited, let me say that none of it is super rare valuable stuff. I am...

I have the interface board (Unibus) for a VAX to FPS connection. I never managed to get the FPS box (an FPS-164, apparently), and my VAX has a CSPI array processor, so this interface board is very much surplus to my needs. Are there any FPS owners out there that need this? I would not mind...

Here is a picture of the RKS8E. -- Will

OK, I just uncovered three cards for a small 3B2 - two are quad serial ports, and the third is something else. It seems to me a long long time ago, I was supposed to give these to someone here, but clearly things did not connect. To whoever it was - sorry! So, who was it? Shake a few nuts and...