Wednesday, January 6, 2011

Attendees: Ron Williams, Bob Erickson, Robert Garner, George Ahearn, Stan Paddock, Frank King, Don Luke, Douglas Martin, Bill Newman, Joe Preston, Ed Thelen, Allen Palmer and Ron Crane

Joe Preston gets up close and personal with the number three tape drive for the German Machine. 

Allan Palmer is rebuilding a brake assembly for the number two tape drive on the German machine.

Bob Erickson shows off his skills with the IBM 083 card sorter.

Ron Crane, Dough Martin and others are working on the long term problem with reading cards on the Connecticut machine. We have a program and deck that can cause the machine to fail on demand. We are now trying to identify what part of the circuits are causing the failure.

The IBM 1403 printer on the Connecticut machine has, in the past, stalled the printer ribbon. This puts a series of holes in the ribbon. This situation occurred on Wednesday. We believe it is a weak ribbon drive mechanism. Stan started taking the mechanism apart to find the problem.


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