14 Aug
2014
14 Aug
'14
11:16 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello again-lol
I might have one around here somewhere, but if you can take the entire lock
out they shouldn't be hard to find but might be keyed differently.
The lock mechanism is fine, it's the microswitch assembly surrounding it
that's broken -- if you happen to have this part, let me know.
Thanks,
Josh
Paul
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
A PDP-11/05 in need of some help arrived on my
doorstep yesterday.
Amongst its other problems (*) the power/panel lock microswitch has been
broken beyond all repair and it's kind of an oddball thing -- anyone
happen
to have one going spare (or know what the
equivalent might be?). Someone
did a rather ugly kluge to work around it (it's just hotwired in an
always-ON configuration with a really ugly jumper wire), and I'd like to
get it operating normally again.
It's marked as DEC P/N 12-10982 (REV. B).
Thanks in advance,
Josh
(*) It's been dropped (or had something dropped on it), the frame is bent
as a result, which I've mostly undone. The power supply tests out good
(a
small amount of ripple but within tolerances if
the service manual is to
be
trusted) and it shows signs of life (Load Addr
works about 50% of the
time), however it's not doing much. The M7261 board has "BAD?" penciled
in
so someone else's been over this machine
before. I sense a lot of
debugging in my future.