QProbe2023 - QBUS Blinkenlights

[Jörg Hoppe]

Fellow nerds,
not sure who knows about this project, so here an announcement ... again?

As QBUS PDP-11s (03,23,73,83,93, also uVAX) don't have lots of
lamps&switches
like the old UNIBUS machines, their owners suffer on "Blinkenlight envy".
So I was pushed to pimp up the QBUS diagnostic adapter "QProbe"
https://www.retrocmp.com/tools/qprobe

Model "QProbe2023" has now focus on entertainment.
There's a QBUS signal display in style of old PDP-10/12/15 rack header
panels.
It can be build into a 5.25" drive case ... or into the BA23 case itself.
https://www.retrocmp.com/tools/qprobe/327-qprobe2023-overview

By lucky incident you can even see the idle loop pattern of RSX11M+ on some
J11 systems. See a full boot of RSX11M+ at time index 5:56 of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAcxGwK-vQ

As it also has RESTART/HALT/AUX switches, it's also helpful for PDP-11s
mounted
case-less in a standalone backplane (like the one at
https://retrocmp.com/projects/lsibox and on the "Frankenstein" video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoW7Szkppww&t=403s )

kind regards,
Joerg