26 May
2015
26 May
'15
5:23 a.m.
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 08:07:04PM -0400, Michael Thompson wrote:
so the processor is substantially functional.
This is substantially cool.
We tried the ASR33 Teletype that came with the system.
The mechanics were
sticky from not being used for 30 years
This is substantially crazy :-)
IIRC the mechanics were kind of sticky when new.
The whole "changing flip-flops" thing really took me back. I learned
to do that in high school on our Control Data G-15. The multiply
instruction was the first to go :-)
I kept it running for some time using that method. (of course we did
not have a budget to order spares)
mcl