Wednesday Febuary 2, 2011

Attendees: Bill Newman, Bill Worthington, Bill Flora, Bob Erickson, Douglas Martin, Frank King, George Ahearn, Glenn Lea, Joe Preston,  Allen Palmer, Ron Williams, Stan Paddock

 Joe Preston is making progress on the third IBM 729 tape drive. It will now automatically :

1. Load the tape into both vacuum columns

2. Bring the head down on the tape

3. Rewind the tape to the beginning tape indicator

This is all perfectly normal.

Now if it did not continue by raising the tape head and unloading the tape..

There is always next week.

Upon occasion, Robert garner will explain how modern computers work. Or how SUN built the first real computer. Or how much raise we can expect at the end of the month.

We had a pair of guest who decided to see the Computer History Museum because their flight to New York was canceled. They were looking for the BABBAGE machine but wondered into out room by accident. 

Stan