On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:38:34AM -0800, Al Kossow wrote: Hmm... $0.50 or $1 per hour to prove you wrong? If it were my machine, I might even take you up on that bet. Not a sure thing, though. Good point. When I get home, I hope to be working on some stuff of this nature (if I can't find a PT08, I'll have to build one; I have a PA60 that nobody seems to know ever existed that would make a nice platform). I've also thought about a non-rotating (reversible) mod to a DF32 since I'm pretty sure my platters are screwed. At this point, all I can do is plan; I don't have WW tools for the older backplanes. Also, for a seperate project (peripherals for an -8/L), does anyone know if it's still possible to find any of the bus strip for DEC backplanes. They used to sell it on a roll - it had alternating large and small holes so you could, for example, tie all the A1 pins successive slots together (the version for the older, single-sided backplane was simpler, just a bunch of sequential square holes in a line). I've thought about what it would take to build a stamping machine to crank it out of something soft like ribbon copper (then tin it), but my machining skills are much too primitive. Any suggestions on finding/making bus strip? -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 08-Feb-2004 20:52 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -37.7 F (-38.7 C) Windchill -69.09 F (-56.2 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 9 kts Grid 067 Barometer 687.8 mb (10333. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html

Hello, after all I managed to update the schematics of the reader run control of my ASR33 Teletype from HP. I also put a schematic of the RSR232 to 20 mA current loop converter that I am using online. And I have updated the teletype portion of my website. Now I "only" have to clean up the scanned copies of the Geveke schematics with photoshop to make them more readable and then put them in nice pdf files. If interested take a look at http://pdp8.de/en Gerold

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Al Kossow wrote: Well, that depends on a lot of factors. Is this assuming the machine will be re-wired completely, or assume Tore will just try to fix it as is? -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]