I have two tales to tell about the repair workshop that are funny, but I won't tell them here. You will have to ask me in person, but I intend to repeat them over and over again until people get sick of me telling them. Then I will tell new stories. The repair workshop was well attended this time with the usual suspects and some new ones as well. Jeff Salzman and Herb got the H89 working! So now it is available for operation and display in the museum. I thank them very much for all their hard work in working on the repair of the machine and getting it into operation. It has been sitting in the museum for years as a static display and it is lovely to see it actually display something on the screen and operate. We have Vcalc and 1 or 2 other pieces of software (I forget what they are at the moment). Jeff Salzman intends to make other software disks available to the museum the next time he comes or he can give me the disks at the July repair workshop @ System Source. David Gesswein worked on the PDP 8. The original intention was to train me on papertape and software loading, but he discovered that there were some faults. He had suspected it to be one problem on two cards, but that wasn't the case. He found out one of the diodes needed replacement and it worked better. However there was another problem on another card, but he ran out of time and will take the card home to troubleshoot and narrow down the problem. I know that others were working on various things, but I didn't have time to get details. Always a fun time at the workshop and lots of stuff getting fixed. Going to Brick House Tap & Tavern was a welcome change. Main Street Bar and Grill is nice, but we have overdone it and needed to change up things. I'm considering doing an outdoor grill at the August repair workshop cooking burgers and hotdogs. Next repair workshops are: July 10 & 11 @ System Source : SIGNUP <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KROoCNqTiTWgsXvijGBqvNblZa8weS6a8hEkXpmO_Ao/edit?usp=sharing> August 14 & 15 @ InfoAge: SIGNUP <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J028DlSdvSUlh3BsrGfmalHQ9qbFfPSUQa9Exn1aoJs/edit?usp=sharing> ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org