All the best computing decisions I’ve made in my life required a front-end loader, and this big beast is no exception! Bob over at System Source is an absolute legend and has entrusted an incredibly rare piece of vacuum tube computing history to me, and I don’t intend to let him down. We’re going to get this beautiful piece of room heating equipment up and going!
But today, let’s just take a look at just how big of a mountain we have to climb.
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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847
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Chapters
0:00 Sitting on the dock of the bay
1:33 Unloading 1,500 lbs. of computer goodness
3:39 A wild G15 has appeared!
5:52 Casters, cleaning and rearranging
10:47 What’s the plan Stan?
13:18 The tube and diode modules
14:46 The backplane wiring
16:11 The rotating drum memory
18:31 The front panel
20:18 The paper tape reader and punch
21:40 Odds and ends
24:27 Mogu, mogu, mogu