It is with slight trepidation that I anticipate being interviewed tonight for a magazine article on vintage computer collecting. I’ve heard horror stories from friends who have been interviewed by the press and been misquoted, had statements taken out of context, etc. Since this is a human interest story, I suppose that’s not [...]

OK, so maybe collecting old computers isn’t an art. But I definitely did more suffering for it yesterday than I would have expected.

At last night’s meeting of the PDP-1 Restoration Project, we actually used WREC to reform four capacitors out of two of the Type 728 power supplies. In the process I found and fixed a few minor bugs. I need to get a new release (0.02) together. I started compiling a ChangeLog from [...]

Started looking at adding real-time graphing to WREC. The most obvious choices appear to be the gtkplot component of the GtkExtra library, or Guppi. Guppi development seems to be stalled, and I didn’t see any example code or documentation describing how to do the sort of stuff I want. (I noticed that [...]

A preliminary release of WREC is now available. There’s a tarball on the web page, and a link to information about the subversion source code repository.
WREC Reforms Electrolytic Capacitors using an SCPI-programmable power supply. WREC was written for use on the Computer History Museum PDP-1 Restoration Project, but should be useful to reform [...]

On Tuesday I started a new project, WREC. WREC Reforms Electrolytic Capacitors. We’re going to use it for the PDP-1 Restoration Project at the Computer History Museum.
I’m trying to finish coding WREC and debug it in time for the 7-JAN-2003 meeting of the PDP-1 Restoration Team.