Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration - failure modes

2020-03-30 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:43 PM Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk wrote: > In restoring my PDP-8/s, diodes were the problem. Turns out they have > steel leads that rust. Easy to see with a microscope. > Badly rusted ones broke the glass body. Good to know. My PDP-8/S was stored indoors but my

Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration - failure modes

2020-03-30 Thread Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk
On 3/30/2020 12:02 PM, Josh Dersch via cctech wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:48 PM Brendan McNeill via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: Here in NZ and around the world many of us are in lockdown and spending more time on our computers, if that were possible. I have just completed the