Second straight non-Wednesday workday Monday October 28, 2103

Last week the electricians connected both 1401 computers to the building power.

Our team came in Saturday and connected the equipment together.
The Connecticut machine came up with only having to reverse two legs of the three phase power.
This is normal as the electricians have no way of knowing the rotational phase of the three phase power.
When we see one of our three phase motors going backwards, we fix the problem at the power connection.

While the 60/50 power converter came up and appeared to be OK, the German 1401 was not happy.
It would not start.

A number of techies all figured that the connection between the German machine and the 60/50 cycle converter was the possible problem.
There was only one thing to do; Call in Ron Crane who is the expert.

After Ron fixed the wiring to the output of the 60/50 cycle power converter, the German responded to the power on button.

Power came (and stayed) up - but the lower 4,000 characters of memory does not work. No bits, no apparent response. 

Here is Ron Williams, in his customary prayerful position?? trouble shooting. 


Meanwhile, Carl Claunch and Frank King are starting to cable the CT magnetic tape drives. Carl stated that after the enthusiastic activities of Saturday, he was a major buyer of over-the-counter pain killers. 

Here is Stan, either pulling cable for the mag tape of the DE machine, praying, or collapsing.

Carl and Stan trying to get the mag tape cables into the cut-out floor tile. I thought that computer people were white collar workers !! ?? !! ;-)) 

Dave Lion was mostly in the warehouse "Cyclops" hauling cables, printer paper, IBM cards, etc. and wondering where to put the rest of the office cubical of material to be removed "before the 1st".

Next Wednesday, we will attempt to wire up tape drives with existing floor tiles or mark floor tiles 
for cutting cable access.