Re: PDP8/a Initial Power Up

2018-11-05 Thread Richard Sheppard via cctalk
Welcome – and watch out where you stick those probes: EEVBlog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaELqAo4kkQ Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Re: PDP8/a Initial Power Up (Columbia Valley Maker Space)

2018-11-05 Thread Anders Sandahl via cctalk
place to be is to post in the DEC category on the VCFED forum: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?23-DEC Good luck! /Anders > Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 08:56:08 -0700 > From: Columbia Valley Maker Space > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: PDP8/a Initial Power Up

Re: PDP8/a Initial Power Up

2018-11-05 Thread Michael Thompson via cctalk
> > Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 08:56:08 -0700 > From: Columbia Valley Maker Space > Subject: PDP8/a Initial Power Up > > Hello everyone - my first post, so be easy on me! > > I have just acquired a PDP8/a and a Remex punch tape reader. The unit > starts up and displays som

Re: PDP8/a Initial Power Up

2018-11-05 Thread Gordon Henderson via cctalk
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Columbia Valley Maker Space via cctalk wrote: Hello everyone - my first post, so be easy on me! I have just acquired a PDP8/a and a Remex punch tape reader. The unit starts up and displays some data on the displays, and that is about all I can tell you. I am going to do som

Re: PDP8/a Initial Power Up

2018-11-02 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,439 some docs online, that might help Operators manual PDF ftp://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/pdp8a/EK-8A001-OP-002_PDP-8A_Operators_Handbook_Sep76.pdf and a concise bit that might give you some help too http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/i

Re: PDP8/a Initial Power Up

2018-11-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Columbia Valley Maker Space > The unit starts up and displays some data on the displays You're lucky that worked. Old power supplies need to be brought back to life in stages. > something I can enter via the keypad. ... if you are going to suggest > some tests, I need com

PDP8/a Initial Power Up

2018-11-02 Thread Columbia Valley Maker Space via cctalk
Hello everyone - my first post, so be easy on me! I have just acquired a PDP8/a and a Remex punch tape reader. The unit starts up and displays some data on the displays, and that is about all I can tell you. I am going to do some googling about this, but I am looking for basic initial tests ...