Re: Free punched card deck machine, suitable to make reader and punch

2021-07-04 Thread Carl Claunch via cctalk
The machine is 41" wide, 22" deep and 22" high. Total guess is 200 pounds, might be a bit less. I have a hydraulic lift cart that can be used to roll it to a car and lift it to the bed height, but someone has to be able to lift it up onto the cart and then off the cart at its final destination as

Free punched card deck machine, suitable to make reader and punch

2021-07-04 Thread Carl Claunch via cctalk
I bought this years ago for a planned project to create a card reader and card punch for a mainframe replica, using this machine that was designed to reproduce decks of punched cards. It is very heavy and sturdy. It has two input hoppers and two stackers, one for the source cards and one for the p

Re: apollo psa test point adaptor

2019-05-21 Thread Carl Claunch via cctalk
On 05/19/2019 09:46 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > There's a switch labeled "IRIG" which stands for Inter Range > Instrumentation Group, and refers to a standard for > telemetry encoding. There is a standard for time code, a > standard for modulating analog signas onto a bunch of FM > car

Anyone have spare DipStik sockets?

2019-02-23 Thread Carl Claunch via cctalk
In the early 1970s a socket to hold multiple DIP chips was being sold under the brand name DipStik. Up to six chips were inserted in a trough in the socket, a top screwed on with thumbscrews on the ends. It had solder lugs on the top and bottom for each of the chip pins. We are restoring an old el

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2018-01-27 Thread Carl Claunch via cctalk
The IPA is heated to 60C before the ultrasound is able to remove the oxide remnants, FWIW. While we can often get the entire smooth surface of the head clean with swabs and IPA, it is very difficult to clean all the material that forms in the cruciform trench recessed into the head (where the read

Re: SimH IBM1130 GUI appears "fixed"

2017-05-12 Thread Carl Claunch via cctalk
>I've made little more progress in deciphering the operation >of Carl Claunch's "Lunar Landing" program, as featured in one >of his 1130 YouTube videos. (I'm guessing he's the actual author >of the program -- he mentions on one of his blogs that he was >interested in space before he became interest

Re: IBM 4331 Mainframe

2017-05-02 Thread Carl Claunch via cctalk
> The 4361 is the real gem to get in this type of system. There is a > builtin storage director as well as the 4 port comm controller. The 4331 had an option for an integrated storage director, as well as a feature that converted between CKD and FBA for use with 3340 drives. The system Guy owns o