The University of Iowa's DEC PDP-8Restoration Log
Part of
the UI-8 pages
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This is a chronological log of the progress restoring the University of Iowa's PDP-8 computer. Entries are added at the end as work progresses. Click on any thumbnail image to see full-sized image.
Bug 64: After a long hiatus forced on us by the COVID-19 epidemic, the retrocomputer lab was reopened during the fall of 2022. We went over many of the same ssues covered in previous years, verifying that memory didn't seem to be working and renewing our suspicion that there might be a problem with the memory strobe signal.
Three probes |
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In the photo
Doug Jones built one probe while Elle Goodrich and Samuel Nicklaus built the
other, learning to solder and doing some logic debugging in the process,
locating inadvertent cold solder joints, forgotten connections and solder
bridges.