The University of Iowa's DEC PDP-8 Participants and Supporters

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Participants

The following people took an active part in the restoration work on the University of Iowa PDP-8:

Fall 1992

• Douglas W. Jones initiated this project. He's at the right in the left photo below.
• Jeffery Line was among the students involved in moving the machine. Who were the others?

  Students, Spring 2014

• Jacob Acord, second from left in left photo.
• Matthew Adamczyk, left in right photo.
• Tony Andrys.
• Nick Becker.
• Cale Bierman, second from right in left photo, right in right photo.
  

  Students, Fall 2014

• Jacob Acord.
• Bowen Bai.
• Yongqi Chao.
• Christopher Trenary.
• Shanji Wang, soldering in photo.
• Zimu Zhang.
  

  Students, Spring 2015

• Nick Becker.
• Douglas Ives, seated, left.
• Bowen Bai, standing, center.
• Zimu Zhang, standing, right.

  Students, Summer 2016

• Chris Trenary.
  

  Students, Fall 2016

• HongXu Li, cleaning the Teletype ribbon carrier, left photo.

  Students, Fall 2016

• Colin Murphy, replacing a CPU board, right photo.

  Students, Fall 2017

• Kaleb McKone
• Ziyang Wang
• Yizhen Chen

  Students, Spring 2018

• Ke Ma, right in left photo
• Zhenbo Song, left in left photo, right in right photo
• Yihe Xu, left in right photo

  Students, Fall 2022

• Samuel Nicklaus
• Elle Goodrich

  Students, Spring 2023

• Ethan Dick

  Students, Fall 2024

• Ethan Marple

  Students, Summer 2025

• Jake Lee
• Magnolia Wallerich
• Mollie Whaley

  Students, Fall 2025

• Magnolia Wallerich

  Students, Spring 2026

• Scott Bellows
• Jason Ly
• Magnolia Wallerich

Supporters

The following people contributed in one way or another to the project:

• Wayne Durkee gave us a replacement paper-tape-reader control lever, a pair of salvaged reader-run relays (one of which tested good), and a resistor needed in the tape-reader power supply, all for the Teletype, and answered many questions about that machine.
• Anixter Components of Dorset, England, sent free samples of the DC202 terminal bushings to replace some that had broken on the PDP-8 power supply (the new ones are all black).
• Michael Thompson and the Rhode Island Computer Museum provided salvged DC202 terminal bushings -- in the correct colors.
• Dan Tumey provided a set of newly manufactured replacement print hammers for the Teletype, along with a similarly new accoustic foam mat to replace the decayed mat that was under the Teletype print mechanism.
• Kenneth Garland provided a repeat lever to replace a the missing part on our Teletype keyboard.