[GreenKeys] A momentous day

[Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys]

did  you reform the power supply caps  first!?
 
 
In a message dated 2/5/2015 11:57:44 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu writes:

The  restoration project of PDP-8 serial number 85 has reached
a key  benchmark.

Yesterday, we turned it on for the first time.  Lights  came on
on the front panel, but our focus was checking voltage levels
on  all the supply busses.  This machine has not seen power since
1980,  and it was probably only under power occasionally after
1975.

The  log entry for the momentous day is here:
--  http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/UI-8/log.shtml#2015-02-04

(note  also that the scattered parts of the console Teletype are
rapidly being  reunited.)

Doug Jones
jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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