7 Mar
2005
7 Mar
'05
8:52 p.m.
Thanks for the replies. :) Picking out Tony Duell's, since it's
handy:
Alas, no. I had UPS inspect the smashed machine and return it to the
seller long, long ago.
Thank you! The suggestions from you and others will all start getting
examined tomorrow, but just to eliminate a whole area of what the problem
_isn't_ is very helpful. :) :)
-O.-
-The one big
problem it has is its lack of a reader power supply.
Can't you grab it from your wrecked ASR33 (or did you manage to get that
one going in the end)? I will ahev to hhunt, but I may have it. Isn't it
in the DEC ASR33
diagrams (which are on bitsavers?)
<long pause as I go off to look, download and read> ...Ah. I probably
should have thought of that on my own. <slaps forehead>
Thanks for the excellent suggestions regarding likely mechanical causes
for the chatter on Local. I'll be walking through the machine with them
tomorrow, and hopefully they'll solve the current problem. Then I can look
to see if there are more exotic problems. :)
[...] sooo
here's the question: could the lack of a power
supply for the reader be causing this behavior? (The reader itself is
No. That is certainly not the problem.