Wednesday March 30, 2011

Attendees: Ron Williams, Bob Erickson, Robert Garner, George Ahearn, Stan Paddock, Bill Flora, Frank King, Glenn Lea, Don Luke, Douglas Martin, Bill Newman, Joe Preston, Ed Thelen, Allen Palmer, Jim Hunt, Ron Crane, Judith Haemmerle, Bill Worthington, Bob Feretich

 

 A new page has been turned!  Ed Thelen is working with Joe Preston on a failed IBM 729 SMS card. Ed said it was close to the cards he knew from the GE tape drives.

Here Ed shows where the IBM 729 tape drives is better than the GE tape drive because it uses two v belts to drive the take up reel.

Here Joe is trying to make sense of what Ed was talking about.

Ron Williams was heard to say "Chassis 1, section B drawer 6, column 3, slot 15, pin J". Now where in the hell is that?

OK, here it is. On the the card with the smoke coming out of it.

Ron Williams and Bob Feretich worked on a persistent card reader problem with the Connecticut IBM 1402 card reader. It was traced down to a faulty SMS card.


This reader has been a source of problems from the day we received the unit. We now feel comfortable that we have found and fixed the last of these problems.

 Don Luke helps Frank King (out of sight) re-assemble the underside of tape drive on the Connecticut machine.


Stan Paddock