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From article <1992Nov14.061003.1247@vpnet.chi.il.us>,
by cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka):
> I have a pdp8/e.
	Me too, but not with any emotional connections.
> 
> I have a third- or fourth-generation photocopy of most (I think) of
> the ASR-33 Teletype schematics.
	I have originals of the schematics and maintenance manual.
> I have three extra M8650 current loop interface boards.
	I have a pile of these too -- but note, the 8650 can do RS232
	as well as current loop!  You can hook modern terminals to
	them at up to 2400 baud, and even faster if you use jumpers
	to points not advertised in the manual.  Read the extended
	comments in the board schematics for the M8650 to find out
	how to make the RS232 cable and how to jumper for higher
	speeds.
> Supplies?  I've got a _lot_ of blank 1" paper tape.
	I got cases and cased of oiled fanfold and roll tape, mostly
	black, but also a case of dark grey.  No DEC original tape,
	though.
> I'd like to have:
> A copy of BASIC that works.  I have my EDUSYSTEM-20 BASIC tape from
> the goodle days, but it doesn't run.
	I have the EDUSYSTEM-30 user's guide (mark-sense batch BASIC),
	The EDUSYSTEM-10 user's guide (basic, but minimal), the
	EDUSYSTEM Produce Catalog, including an undated letter
	offering price quotes, circa 1971, and a copy of the
	Educational Program Index from the same era.  All are DEC
	originals.  Sorry I don't have the software itself.
> I need several switch handles
> for the front panel (doesn't everybody?)
	I don't know about everybody, but one "goldenrod" handle
	would do me a world of good.  (Goldenrod is the official
	DEC name for the yellow color that goes opposite terra
	cotta on the PDP-8/E front panel).
> I'd be interested in a
> source for ASR-33 ribbons and paper.
	I think it's a standard kind of cloth ribbon.  If worse comes
	to worse, the width of the ribbon is exactly standard, so al
	you have to do is wind a ribbon from whatever kind of spool
	you get onto the ASR33 spool.
> And all of the plastic associated with the air filters in the
> desktop case has deteriorated,
	Strip out the bad filters.  If your air is dirty enough to
	need filtering, go to a furnace store and look at the filter
	media they have to offer.  I've seen some "plastic" furnace
	filter material that's not too different from the DEC stuff,
	but thicker.  I assume it'd work well enough if you can get
	it to fit in the path of the airflow.  I've got a rack-mount
	system with no air filters (at least, none remaning) inside
	the rack.  The top-of-rack fan still has a filter, though,
	but just about anything can be stuffed there.

				Doug Jones
				jones@cs.uiowa.edu