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.