Saturday november 13, 2010

Today's attendees were :
Ron Williams, Bob Erickson,  Stan Paddock, Ron Mak, Jim Hunt, Bill Worthington and Bill Newman 


Ron Mak brought in 20 or so students from his computer classes at San Jose State.
His objective is to show how data processing was done in the 1960's.
This is the second year he has brought his students in.
Presentation of the equipment was done by Bill Worthington and Stan Paddock.


During the day, we had another 15 visitors that dropped in to see the operational equipment.

Lacking a service station hoist, we are forced to lay the IBM Model B typewriter on its back to work on the underside connecting wiring.

Bob Erickson, Jim Hunt and Stan Paddock worked on how to connect to the electrical components.
IBM Model B typewriter is what was used in the IBM 1407 inquiry terminal.
With any luck, we will be able to re-create that functionality again with this unit.