PDP-11 Bus Grantosaurus Rex

[pbirkel@gmail.com]

Found this photo while looking for something else.
Nice to see a spot 'o play among the suppliers BITD :-}.

 

[reinhardtjh]

The height would help prevent the "knuckle busting" of the smaller cards. Or at least keep you laughing while getting mangled.

 

[DDS]

"Now that's funny right there. If you don't think that's funny you can just get out, 'cause that right there is funny" -- Larry the Cable Guy

Besides, isn't getting the back of your hand shredded by all those clipped off leads on the back of a card kind of a rite of passage?

You know, like the sheet metal cuts you get when you work on a vintage VW Bug?

 

[Radix]

Someone, somewhere in a PCB factory is wondering what the heck we are up to...

I was contemplating putting misleading silkscreen labels on some boards I was getting made - like "Flux capacitor" next to a connector... or "Time dilation crystals"

Got to keep the folks at JLC guessing...

Robin

 

[daver2]

I saw this and (like @reinhardtjh) thought that this would have saved the skin on my knuckles many times over!

Dave

 

[Ed Groenenberg]

Oh, yeah. I kept one of these after I dispersed most of my PDP-11 stuff.
I believe a forum member have had made a set of them some considerable time ago.

 

[glitch]

Hah, a bunch of these showed up on eBay years ago. Talked myself out of buying one, since I have a number of DEC dual height green-handle continuity cards, and some third-party single-height ones. Kinda wish I had a Grantosaurus though