30 Aug
2012
30 Aug
'12
3:35 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Colin Eby <colineby at isallthat.com> wrote:
All, especially Tony,
I'm getting ready to power up a PERQ 1a which has been sitting for a
while (5+ years). I have no reason to believe it has any faults. I've
done the obvious prep, like unparking the disk, and removing the locking
screw. And I will need to build a dummy load to retest the power
supply. Are there any other gotchas or quirks I should be aware of? I
have no previous experience with this model, and would err on the side
of leaving it dormant rather than proceeding blindly.
-- Colin
Congrats on finding an amazing classic machine! :) Tony I'm sure will be
along with some useful advice shortly (he is by far the expert on PERQ
hardware).
I'm here to make a request for you when you do get the machine up and
running: I'm always looking for more software to run on my PERQ (and the
emulator PERQemu that I occasionally find time to hack on). If you have
any PERQ software (on floppy or otherwise) I'd like to make sure it gets
archived. I have a simple utility for dumping PERQ hard disks over the
serial port if you're willing to contribute to the cause :).
Thanks,
Josh