Re: Circuit board trace repair...

2020-08-12 Thread Doc Shipley via cctalk
When I worked for Texas Instruments in '83, we used 30ga 24K gold wire... I use plain wire-wrap wire for board repairs, and from the looks of most of my pre-1990 circuit boards, that's period correct. The only issue I'd have with that 3M tape would be cutting it narrow enough to fit. Otherwi

Re: LSI-11 Simulator from Bob Meister

2020-08-12 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Richard Cini wrote: > an article by Bob Meister that appeared in the July 1996 issue of > Circuit Cellar with an LSI-11 simulator program. I found this by Robert P. Meister at Battelle Columbus labs. It mentions an LSI-II. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a071102.pdf

HMS Victory "afloat" again on high-tech, hull-protecting supports

2020-08-12 Thread Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk
Seems like  sort of an "active suspension" system to try to preserve a 255 years-old ship.  I wonder if the hardware and software involved stands a chance of being supported a mere five more years. https://newatlas.com/military/hms-victory-floats-hull-protecting-high-tech-supports/ Carlos.

Card edge connectors for individual Qbus wings

2020-08-12 Thread Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk
Greetings, everyone... Does anybody know where I can source card edge connectors (with eyelets or pins on the other side, hopefully) that would fit individual wings in a Qbus board? Carlos.

LSI-11 Simulator from Bob Meister

2020-08-12 Thread Richard Cini via cctalk
All –     I’m cleaning out my shop (I’m swimming in stuff so I will be creating a “to go” list at some point), and this week I was going through boxes of magazine articles I saved. One is an article by Bob Meister that appeared in the July 1996 issue of Circuit Cellar with an LSI

Re: Altair 8800 reproduction

2020-08-12 Thread Tom Hunter via cctalk
The Altair-Druino kit arrived yesterday morning. I built it and am very impressed. In many ways it is better and more useful than a real Altair 8800 or a 8800c. Cheers Tom Hunter On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:07 PM Tom Hunter wrote: > I am not the most patient person. :-) > While waiting for my Al