I assembled a PDP 8/A from boards and chassis, and except for my core memory boards it operated successfully. I tested on David Gesswein's working 8/A the following: my 8/A board set, my core memory boards, and my programmer's panel. Then I assembled the best of these on my 8/A chassis, and ran tests with some success. However I had to use David's 8K core and not mine. My thanks and great appreciation to David Gesswein, who provided total use of his 8/A, and patiently gave me instruction and answered questions, as he worked on another slightly more challenging PDP-8. I'm working up my notes onto my Web site. Here's the Web pages in progress. http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/8a_fix_jan16.html is my work on my 8/A and brief notes and photos of David's straight-8 work. There's links on that page, to previous work I did on various parts of the 8/A which I assembled last weekend. http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/vcf_fixit_jan16.html is a very rough Web page on the VCFed repair event itself. No photos up yet, I'll work on it. Photos are available from me for use, for any of the attendees. I enjoyed the weekend. It was good to see my VC friends again, and see some of their work. It was interesting to see all the Commodore 64 attention, and the Pumapunku pile of 1641 drives in various states of repair during the course of the weekend. Bill Degnan had some interesting discussion at Saturday dinner. Thanks to Jeff Galinat for use of his soldering iron, and I admired his S-100 setup. Thanks to Jeff Brace for his management of the event, Evan for various food runs and for accommodations. And my regards to all my colleagues who attended. Herb Johnson, retrotechnology.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapunku -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net