Hi friends. I have a PDP-8/e and I would like to mount it in a rack as a sliding unit. Here is a photo of what I have mounted on the side of the PDP-8E to help figure out what I need. Does anyone have what I would need to mount this in a rack? For sale? http://w2hx.com/x/PDP/PDP-8E/2.jpg Thanks Eugene
On 06/21/2017 02:36 PM, W2HX via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have a PDP-8/e and I would like to mount it in a rack as a sliding unit. Here is a photo of what I have mounted on the side of the PDP-8E to help figure out what I need. Does anyone have what I would need to mount this in a rack? For sale?
They are fairly standard rack slides. I don't remember offhand who manufactured them, but lots of companies used them. The same ones were used for RX01/RX02 floppy drives. They do show up on eBay fairly frequently, but don't bother searching for them as anything PDP-8, DEC, or even computer-related, as they were (and are) used all over many industries. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 06/21/2017 02:36 PM, W2HX via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have a PDP-8/e and I would like to mount it in a rack as a sliding unit. Here is a photo of what I have mounted on the side of the PDP-8E to help figure out what I need. Does anyone have what I would need to mount this in a rack? For sale?
My PDP 11/05 has the same ones I think. And yeah I've seen very similar on many other similarly aged equipment. Can you measure their height and their offset (by which I mean the gap between the chassis and the turned-outward top and bottom edges of the rail)? I *might* have spares that I'd be happy to part with. Failing that I wonder if some other more modern rails (multi-track ball bearing) line up with the chassis.
They are fairly standard rack slides. I don't remember offhand who manufactured them, but lots of companies used them. The same ones were used for RX01/RX02 floppy drives. They do show up on eBay fairly frequently, but don't bother searching for them as anything PDP-8, DEC, or even computer-related, as they were (and are) used all over many industries.
-Dave
-- Jameel Akari
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 04:36:18PM -0400, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
They are fairly standard rack slides. I don't remember offhand who manufactured them, but lots of companies used them. The same ones were used for RX01/RX02 floppy drives. They do show up on eBay fairly frequently, but don't bother searching for them as anything PDP-8, DEC, or even computer-related, as they were (and are) used all over many industries.
You need to be careful about length. A number of the random slides I picked up are too short for an 8/E. You have both how far you can pull out when extending the equipment and length to get to the rear mounting locations to worry about.
On 6/21/2017 4:36 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
They are fairly standard rack slides. I don't remember offhand who manufactured them, but lots of companies used them. The same ones were used for RX01/RX02 floppy drives. They do show up on eBay fairly frequently, but don't bother searching for them as anything PDP-8, DEC, or even computer-related, as they were (and are) used all over many industries.
General Devices is the name of the company. Searching "General Devices rails" on eBay give you tons of results but I can't tell you which exact rails are for the 8/E. -Connor K
On 06/22/2017 02:08 AM, Connor Krukosky via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
They are fairly standard rack slides. I don't remember offhand who manufactured them, but lots of companies used them. The same ones were used for RX01/RX02 floppy drives. They do show up on eBay fairly frequently, but don't bother searching for them as anything PDP-8, DEC, or even computer-related, as they were (and are) used all over many industries.
General Devices is the name of the company. Searching "General Devices rails" on eBay give you tons of results but I can't tell you which exact rails are for the 8/E.
That's the company! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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