"John R. Carroll" fired this volley in
:

You probably got the whole mess from all of the suppliers.
Cool toy!

It was. It had experienced a "power supply catastrophe", which in NASA
parlance is, "it got smoked".

A friend and I got it working, learning a HELL of a lot in the practice,
then sold it off for gold (70u plating on ALL 200K+ pins!!) and over 3 tons
of aluminum. Traded off the working tape drives for other "cool toys" of
the time.

LLoyd