Folks - Any idea what causes the screen rot? also any preventative measures to keep it from happening or spreading? Ed# In a message dated 9/25/2017 10:20:36 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, isk...@uw.edu writes:
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Ed via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: The shipping cost would be obscene! Ed# In a message dated 9/24/2017 6:57:29 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: > On I Sep 23, 2017, at 4:23 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > The 7970E comes in an HP-IB version Indeed, and I even have one of these beautiful tapes! I managed to interface it to my HP 85 but that was very hard. It required bus sniffing work, an FPGA adapter, and making an HP 85 "driver" for the thing (see the result in a demo here: https://youtu.be/YS9dGYUbNd0). Great to know the same tape works out the box on an HP 9845. Yet one more reason for me to get one ;-). But my, from Sweden, that's going to be a monster shipping and customs headache. Marc I have one of these with pretty bad screen rot, and I'm not sure if my HPIB controller is working right - but the system itself runs pretty well. One of my local collector friends has developed an approach to pull the face shield and replace the adhesive - on my list of things to do.... -- Ian -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate _The Information School_ (http://ischool.uw.edu/) Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Principal Investigator, "Reflections on Early Computing and Social Change", UW IRB #42619 Archivist, _Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal_ (http://tribunalvoices.org/) _Value Sensitive Design Research Lab_ (http://vsdesign.org/) University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
