Category Archives: WREC

WREC in action; Subversion

Posted on January 9, 2004 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

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WREC and real-time graphing

Posted on January 7, 2004 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

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WREC

Posted on January 7, 2004 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

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Reforming electrolytic capacitors

Posted on December 28, 2003 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

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