1 May
2005
1 May
'05
11:51 p.m.
Hello Ethan,
I have 3 RK07 drives (two connected) and I have no READY "buttons"
with numbers higher than 3. So before you start a job on your 6
or 7, would you consider a trade? You get a 2 and a 3 (or whatever
you want), and I get the 6 and the 7. Instead of working with a
rasp to remove some plastic, you have to walk to the Post Office :~)
kind regards,
- Henk.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
Sent: maandag 2 mei 2005 5:54
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: I made a zero (was Re: Stuff I want - all I want
is a "0")
On 5/1/05, vrs <vrs at msn.com> wrote:
OK, here's the followup on my attempt to make
an RL02 "0":
http://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/zero.html
I think it turned out pretty well for a first attempt.
Nice job. I was recently going through a box of plastic bits (to put
away the handles I got from you, coincidentally), and found a 6 and a
7, from an RK07, no doubt (since the RL01/RL02 switches top out at
3)... IIRC, one can use them modulo 3 in an RL01/RL02 (i.e., these
would work as 2 and 3) if one doesn't happen to have a full load of
RK07s to populate with numbers.
My recollection of the old days was that 1s and 2s were harder to find
that 0s, but probably because we never misplaced our 0s... they were
right there on the system drives. Somewhere in some old DEC
reseller's warehouse there has to be an enormous box of numbers...
much like teeth in the fabled elephant's graveyard.