On 08/11/2017 03:53 PM, Doug Ingraham via cctalk wrote: > Warren Stearns passed away early on Sunday August 6th. He suffered a heart > attack on Friday the 4th and never recovered from that. Warren was an avid > collector and maintainer of DEC PDP-8 equipment. He and I met almost 43 > years ago while in college and have kept in touch all this time because of > our similar interest in these machines. Warren recently assisted in > bringing a PDP-12 back to life at the University of Minnesota in Duluth. > He has been working on a Flip Chip tester for a couple of years now and has > been using a bread boarded early version of this for several years. > > I am hoping I can find someone with the knowledge and drive to continue > working on his tester as this is something that would greatly benefit those > of us who are trying to keep these machines alive. I will try to collect > all the work he was doing on it together in one place for this purpose. At > the moment I have his tester and his 8/a and 8/i projects. His laptop is > with one of his brothers but I will get a copy of all his engineering and > data files.
Was Warren Stearns connected with Stearns Computer Systems, maker of the short-lived Stearns PC? --Chuck
