[GreenKeys] New PDP-8 restoration project

[Javier Albinarrate]

Hi Doug,

You have a golden piece of history there. Almost the whole package.

Just my two cents, that model 33 is in excellent shape by my 
standards... and the fact that the reader is hanging really doesn't mean 
much of a problem.
Truly if the thing didn't have anything relevant broken back in the late 
1970s (i.e. was in service when retired), has no rust and you don't mess 
up anything when doing the huge clean that you have ahead, it will be 
working in no time.

At least you guys kept it! ALMOST lost it but you saved it just in time.
instead, down here everything was thrown to trash nearly everywhere... 
even (especially) the big tube jewels from the 1950s ended up in the 
dumpster...

Regards!

Javier Albinarrate

On 27/10/2013 15:17, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> Doug! good  to see the photos  did not realize  yours  was a rack 
> mounted  unit. (do not know  s/n )
> we  have one in a rack and  one   table top  with the plexi's (sn/18)
> In a message dated 10/27/2013 11:06:01 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, 
> douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu writes:
>
>     Last Thursday, I started a project to restore a PDP-8 computer to
>     operational condition
>     here at the University of Iowa.  The Teletype Model 33 ASR that
>     came with this machine
>     is in battered condition, with a paper-tape reader that is hanging
>     by its wires and may
>     not be reparable.  I've done a photographic survey of the system
>     as it now stands.
>     See:
>
>     -- http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8//UI-8/
>
>     All the thumbnail photos are clickable.  The photos of the
>     Teletype are at the end.
>     of Friday's update.  There's also a Tally high speed tape reader,
>     so even if we never
>     get the Teletype's reader working, we should be able to read tape
>     (and I have
>     another rack-mount reader on hand if that one fails.)
>
>                      Doug Jones
>                      jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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