It's time to restore the 11/45.
Jon Elson
elson at pico-systems.com
Wed Feb 4 21:00:59 CST 2015
On 02/04/2015 12:43 PM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
> Hi,
> Having gotten the 11/34 rig up to a good spec, I'm sufficiently excited
> to tackle the 11/45. It's been powered off since 2004, when I briefly
> turned it on only to find a wild jumble of lights and that none of the
> front panel switches or knobs did anything to the lights. Couldn't get it
> to run or deposit values or *anything*. I therefore assumed it was badly
> broken and so left it until now. It has stayed perfectly high and dry but
> has gone to extremes in temperature as the storage isn't climate controlled
> (this is in western Pennsylvania). And there's a lot of dust.
>
>
The 11/45 has a row of little step-down regulator modules,
all plugged in with
those horrible AMP Mate-n-Lock connectors. We often had bad
contacts on
those and they would sometimes burn the connector housings
or char the
ends of the wires. That was all about 1980, I can't imagine
they've improved
with age. I think you may have more trouble with these than
anything else
in the machine.
You will probably also have problems with all the fans. I
replaced the lights in
our console with LEDs.
As for a dead console, if the ACOK signal is indicating "not
ok" then the console
probably will be frozen.
Jon
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