PDP-8/L and TTY stuff (was Re: TTY and current loop questions)

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Fri Dec 17 07:17:44 1999

>One thing that I did mention and I'll mention again is that my hammer face
>is not original - I stuck on a rubber sticky foot and I suspect that it is
>part of the problem. I read here recently that someone has had luck with
>carved pink pearl erasers, but I haven't tried that.

I think that was me. The erasers aren't nearly as durable as the
original heavy rubber (after all, erasers *are* designed to wear away!)
hammer face, but they are easily carved.

I never saw any troubles in my ASR33 related to grunge wearing off the
carved eraser, but then again I only ran it for a few hundred hours :-).

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