[rescue] FS: Another BeBox

[Julius Sridhar]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 dave at cca.org wrote:

> >> >What about the thinking machine CM line?  Those had a darn high BL factor.
> >>
> >> Yes, but for *usefull* blinkenlights, the PDPs still win.
> >>
> >> (Unless you go back to 50s mainframes. Some of those front panels make
> >> the PDPs look minimalist.)
>
> >I don't know.  I have a *new* mainframe with several dozen useful
> >blinkenlights.
>
> What was the last IBM mainframe with a full front panel? Or do
> they actually still have switches / hex knobs? Or keypads, like
> the S/36?

Nowadays there's a rackmount PC with specialized hardware running inside
the main frame. The blinkenlights to which I was referring were in the
DASD subsystem.

Peace...  Sridhar