Wednesday April 20, 2011

Attendees: Ron Williams, Bob Erickson, George Ahearn, Stan Paddock, Frank King, Don Luke, Bill Newman, Joe Preston, Ed Thelen, Jim Hunt

Ron Williams shows off the finer points of an IBM 1403 printer to Ed Thalen. Ed still thinks the printers made by GE were better in that their failure rate kept him gainfully employed.

Joe Preston, Jim Hunt and Frank King discuss the finer points the installation of a cotter pin.

This is the card reader end of the Connecticut system as we received it. While operational, it leaves lots of spaces for fingers to be caught.

This is the same end with the right shoulder installed. The part was inside the machine when we received it. The part was sand blasted and re-painted to mach the two new parts.

The bottom support plate was fabricated by Stan Paddock, Sam Seibert, Paul Williams and George Ahearns.

This picture shows George Ahearns attaching the newly fabricated left shoulder. We are very thankful to IBM Almaden  for fabricating this part using the same part borrowed from the German IBM system as a pattern.

 Joe Preston read through all of the manuals for the IBM 729 tape drive to find the last problem with the number three tape drive on the German system. When Joe left today, his tape drive was fully functional for the first time since we have received the system.


Stan Paddock