Sunday, June 17, 2012

Two views of my lab space, so congested as to be almost inaccessible. Center is the 11/73; just in front of it (and on the cart below it) are the guts of a PDP-8/L and 8/L expansion box. The other view shows bits of PDP-8/E, 8/A and 8/M along with a VT52 and WT/78. That's an Ithaca Audio S100 system on top of the VT52.


And here's the workshop. The back of a Datapoint 1100 console unit peeks out from beneath boxes of 'stuff'. The rack to the right holds a classic CompuPro CP/M system and the shelves to the left have a load of ASR 33 teletypes, Datapoint 2200 workstations and the odd Televideo terminal.One of three M28 teletypes is barely visible on the left.



I've entered RetroChallenge 2012 in the "Arts" Category. My goal is to give myself enough room to work in my basement lab and workshop area. Many new projects have arrived in the last few months, including HP 2100, HP 21MX, HP 1000-F, DEC 11/35 and DEC 11/45. Top priorities are to finish 8/L power supply restorations and get 8/L and expansion box reassembled for trouble shooting and to bolt the 'reference' 11/73 together and move it out of the way (back into floor enclosure?).