Allison and I were over at my place today, unloading some of the
haul from the weekend - now I've got an RL01 to put on the 11/34a
so that I can have a booting system.
We took some time to take a look at the pdp-8/e that I now have
(which, conincidentally enough was hers about 8 years ago when
she gave it to someone else -- the person from whom I obtained my
recent haul). We replaced the missing fuse, then used a piece
of wire to jumper the plug in the back so it would power up (we
got it from the lab-8/e -- the same connector was apparently
missing from that machine, so they kludged it).
Anyway, we plugged it in, and turned it on.... fans whirred
just fine. Allison toggled in a quick program and demonstrated
that it had 8k in it, that the CPU seems to execute some
instructions, and some of the lights work... so we're off and
running.
The front panel had a piece broken out of it below the keyswitch,
and the panel was kind of dirty... so we removed it and I've
cleaned it up. For the time-being the piece is tacked back in
with glue from a hot glue gun, but I'll use something else later
on...
I've also taken some pictures of the case from various angles
and have them up in my jpg area, but I haven't set up links
to them...
If anyone wants to see them by typing in the path to them, they're
at
http://world.std.com/~mbg/pdp8e_view_001.jpg
(002, 003, 004)
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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Received on Sun Apr 11 1999 - 13:43:56 BST
