[vcf-midatlantic] Side panels for our PDP-8

[William F. Dudley Jr.]

The easiest thing I can imagine is making them out of sheet aluminum.

Bigbluesaw.com can waterjet cut aluminum sheet and make the array of vent
holes, then "we" bend the three sides on a brake, then wood grain contact
paper for the side surface.  I have a sheet metal brake, or you could
hire a sheet metal shop to do that work.

Bill Dudley

On 02/12/2016 10:44 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> For those of us who haven't seen a PDP-8 in decades, what does the side
>> panel look like?
>
> Plastic: http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem231-pdp8a.JPG
>
> Each panel has three sides. It hangs from the top where there are 
> vents in the plastic. The dark middle section is translucent.