I have been in contact with Josh Dersch through my emulator project who has working 8010's. Evan had expressed interest in getting one working so I had checked and he said: Honestly, they are pretty well-built machines with decent switching power supplies in them. The service manual on Bitsavers covers test points for the power supplies. Pull the boards out, clean the edge connectors, test the voltages under load. The monitors may be the weak point (apart from the stuck-heads problem on the Quantum drives) but we've had pretty good luck with them. The Quantum drive issue is here http://www.pdp8online.com/q2040/q2040.shtml I went to the warehouse with Evan at a previous workshop and we took a quick peek but didn't have time to start anything. At the time I think he said the monitor/keyboard wasn't their yet but was supposed to show up later. Do we have parts for a complete system now? I can bring my emulator so the disks can be backed up before we start working on the machine. I can also check if I can get a good image from the person in case the drives are dead. I have finish the 3b1 which shouldn't take too long, possible Straight 8 work, haven't heard if paper tape could be loaded. Assuming spare time I can assist on this. On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 10:37:30PM -0500, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 22:37:30 -0500 From: Tony Bogan <thebogans@mac.com> To: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org Subject: January workshop call to arms X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (16F203)
All, VCF recently acquired two Xerox 8010 computers. We would like to assess and repair (if needed) these machines, and are hoping to have one on display in the very near future.
We are looking for anyone with the expertise and experience needed to assess these machines. We are hoping to begin the process of restoring these machines at the upcoming January workshop on the 25th and 26th of this month.
So if you???re out there (and I???m sure you are!) and you can attend the workshop, please let us know! While there will be lots going on at the workshop, this is something we are hoping to be able to work on in preparation for the museum remodeling (or as soon as is practical)
Thanks, Tony Bogan
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