5 Sep
2015
5 Sep
'15
2:16 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 08:46:44AM -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
On 9/5/15 8:40 AM, william degnan wrote:
I have a working one on an 8. It took a lot of work to get it to that state.
http://www.pdp8online.com/tu10/tu10-repair.shtml
http://www.pdp8online.com/shows/vcfe09/vcfe09.shtml
9 track drives don't seem to be that popular to collect. I think the
vacuum column drives are interesting to watch. The IBM ones are nicer but this
one is easier to move. And from the old movies isn't not a computer if it
doesn't have spinning tapes.
I surprisingly found little
commentary or threads about the TU10 / TM11, other than DEC docs. I guess
these are not super common
They were common. I worked on a bunch of them. Expect the vacuum sensors
to be bad
in the columns. I think Guy still has a couple of them.