[GreenKeys] Fw: Re: Teletype and electronics........

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

33s kept oiled last  well!   especially if  you motor  shut off  when not  
in  use. 
even the ge terminet 300 wwe used as  console on the   MCCCD   hp-2000 
system  would motor off when not  printing  console messages...
Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)   
 
 
In a message dated 4/11/2013 7:16:53 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
nerd at verizon.net writes:

Never  had a working PDP-8 but did have a fully functional PDP-11/05 and 
later  
11/23 system which initially had a current loop ASR-33 as the main  
terminal 
device.  The ASR-33 didn't come with it, I had that already,  acquired from 
Western Union.  The 33, despite being a lot cheaper in  construction than 
the 28 
or even the 35, still gave me probably into the  thousands of hours of 
service 
with only minimal maintenance.  I did  tons of coding on it, ran through 
carton 
after carton of paper and  ribbons, and when I finally retired it to go to 
a 
"modern" VT-52 terminal  it was mainly to get lower case and quiet 
operation to 
allow my girlfriend  to get to sleep while I was still working.

Peter



On  4/11/2013 9:08 AM, Rokumon Cat wrote:
>
>
> --- On *Thu,  4/11/13, Rokumon Cat /<rokumoncat at yahoo.com>/*  wrote:
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>     From: Rokumon Cat  <rokumoncat at yahoo.com>
>     Subject: Re:  [GreenKeys] Teletype and electronics........
>     To:  COURYHOUSE at aol.com
>     Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013,  6:06 AM
>
>     Good lord...
>   I had a PDP-8 once. Won it in a GSA sealed bid auction... for  five
>     dollars. I did not realize it at the time, but  the 5 foot rack that 
held
>     the PDP-8 and "floppy  drives (8 inch) was not the only thing that I 
won.
>      Seems the GSA in their generosity failed to advise the bidders (me)  
that
>     there were ten of these things that looked  like washing machines in 
size
>     and weight came with  the PDP-8. They were hard drives... along with a
>      multi-hundred pound box called the "hard drive starting sequencer"  
that
>     would start the hard drives one by one, so  that the starting current 
of
>     the motors would not  blow the mains. They (the GSA) advised me that 
I had
>   48 hours to remove these treasures or that I would be fined 25  dollars 
a
>     day for storage.
>   To make a long story short, I rented a flatbed truck with a tommy  lift,
>     got the (deleted) things home and stashed  them in my basement. I 
actually
>     started several of  the hard drives. Though I never was a line boy at 
a
>      passenger airport, I suspect that the sound of a 747's engines 
spooling  up
>     was quite similar to that of the hard drives  both in tone and SPL. 
The
>     heat that came out of  those things was also similar to the jet's 
engines.
>      With my basement stuffed with antiquated computer junque, I decided 
that  I
>     needed to use this stuff for something. That was  in January of one 
of the
>     coldest winters of the  90's. Then on one of the coldest nights of 
that
>      cold winter, my furnace naturally suffered from a burned out blower  
motor.
>     Fearing the specter of frozen pipes and  catcicles, I turned on three 
of
>     the drives. Kept my  basement uncomfortably /hot,/ and my first floor 
nice
>   and toasty, and the second floor bearable.
>   That was the only and best use that I ever came up for the thing.  That
>     spring, I gave it to a kid for the hauling it  away.
>     Best,
>      Joe
>
>
>
>
>          ...had it hooked to my PDP-8
>
>
>
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