Friday, January 2, 2015

Keypunch mechanical issues addressed

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New Year's Eve and kept pretty busy prepping the house for a party my daughter and son-in-law will hold for local gamers tonight. Howeve...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Keypunch interface testing wrapped up, keypunch itself needs work

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Our electrical utility, PGE, scheduled today to replace transformers serving my neighborhood, leaving us without power for a majority of the...
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Keypunch interface testing almost done, but SAC Interface connection still dead

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NEW KEYPUNCH INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT I had one anomalous result in testing yesterday that I don't understand, so I instrumented the heck...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Finding and fixing minor bugs in keypunch interface, problems crop up with SAC Interface

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1053 CONSOLE PRINTER RESTORATION I kept returning to the printer to search for the lost spring, but as of the end of the day I still haven...

Steady progress on SAC interface box and new keypunch interface

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NEW KEYPUNCH INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT I had to partially disassemble the keypunch to clear a really bad jam, but once I did I could verify th...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Good progress on the SAC interface, clearing up assignments of incoming signals

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SAC INTERFACE FOR ADDING PERIPHERALS TO THE 1130 I spent some time in the morning working on two issues: getting the FMC Carrier S6 board ...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Limited time due to holidays but a bit of work on SAC Interface

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Because of the holidays I didn't spend much time on the 1130, being busy with family. However, I did spend some time on the SAC interfac...