Big Blue Pictures (Taken in 2012)

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05_Big_Blue_Front_Panel      55_Big_Blue_View_Panel 
The Big Blue Chassis

16_Unibus_Qbus_Expansion      15_Storage_Drawer 
Unibus and QBus Chassis    Odds and Ends Drawer

15_Storage_Drawer      26_Cipher_Tape_Back_g 
Cipher 800/1600 BPI 9-Track Tape

01_Heath_Console      14_Keyboard_Paper_Tape 
             Console Monitor      Console Keyboard and Paper Tape Reader

22_Big_Blue_Top      23_Big_Blue_Bottom 
Expanded Views of Big Blue's Leds and Switches

17_Lower_Left_Quad      18_Lower_Right_Quad 
   CRDS Floppy Disk System   SCSI Disk and Tape Systems

20_Complete_System      27_Front_Panel_Back 
   The Complete System    Back of Big Blue Console

28_Bit_Slice_Front      29_Bit_Slice_Back 
Front and Back of the Arithmetic Frame

30_Instruction_Decode_Front      31_Instruction_Decode_Back 
Front and Back of the Instruction Decoder / Microde Control Frame

32_Microcode_Front      33_Microcode_Back 
Front and Back of the PROM and Writable Control Store Frame

36_Mmgt_Sram_Front      37_Mmgt_Sram_Back 
Front and Back of the MMGT / Unibus Map / 128K Byte Fast RAM Frame

34_Power_Supplies_Front      35_Power_Suppies_Back 
Front and Back of the Big Blue Power Supplies Frame

38_Memory_Control_Front      39_Memory_Control_Back 
Front and Back of the 4-Megabyte RAM Memory Controller With ECC Frame

41_Memory_1_Front      43_Memory_1_Back 
Front and Back of 1 of 2 2-Megabyte RAM Frames

47_Terminal_Logic_Front      48_Terminal_Logic_Back 
View of the Console Video-Keyboard, Paper Tape Reader and Printer Logic Frame

49_Unibus_Power_Front      24_Unibus_Power_Back 
Front and Back of the Internal Bus and Dual Unibus I/O Frame

50_Piano_Hinge_Side      51_Frame_Lock_Side 
Views of the Big Blue Chassis

55_Big_Blue_View      54_Frame_Top 
Views of the Big Blue Chassis

58_Frame_Top_Back      59_Frame_Top_Front 
Views of the Big Blue Chassis

60_Remote_H19_Terminal 
The H19 remote Terminal

63_TSX_sho_mem      65_TSX_sho 
   TSX Command: SHO MEM                TSX Command: SHO

66_TSX_sho_ver      67_TSX_sho_dev 
   TSX Command: SHO VER               TSX Command: SHO DEV

70_Big_Blue_Space 
The normal Big Blue work-space


Short Video Clips

Line Frequency Clock Diagnostic (19 sec.)  - - - 240x320 mpg mp4
                                                 480x640 mpg mp4

Trap Test (11 sec.)  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 240x320 mpg mp4
                                                 480x640 mpg mp4

Memory Management Logic Test (42 sec.) - - - - - 240x320 mpg mp4
                                                 480x640 mpg mp4

Boot RT-11, enter date and time, (180 sec.)  - - 240x320 mpg mp4
boot TSX+, list system directory, do a           480x640 mpg mp4
network login, list system directory, logout                    

Transferring Data by FTP (15 sec.) - - - - - - - 240x320 mpg mp4
                                                 480x640 mpg mp4



See Big Blue Pictures (Taken in 2005)


Last Updated: March 2025