How to repair an ENIAC???
 

I've just bought an ENIAC on the local flea-market but this
computer is really full of "bugs".

How can I fix this monster and do you think it can compete
with my Commodore 64???

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Carl Dau wrote:
I've just bought an ENIAC on the local flea-market
but this computer is really full of "bugs".
How can I fix this monster
and do you think it can compete with my Commodore 64???

First you invent a re-animator
then you find out where Eckert and Mauchly are buried.

How to repair an ENIAC???
 

In article
,
Carl Dau wrote:

I've just bought an ENIAC on the local flea-market but this
computer is really full of "bugs".

How can I fix this monster and do you think it can compete
with my Commodore 64???

Dude, it is time to upgrade. Have you looked into the Amiga line?

How to repair an ENIAC???
 

Carl Dau wrote:

I've just bought an ENIAC on the local flea-market but this
computer is really full of "bugs".

How can I fix this monster and do you think it can compete
with my Commodore 64???

sure you did ...

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CJT writes:

Carl Dau wrote:

I've just bought an ENIAC on the local flea-market but this
computer is really full of "bugs".
How can I fix this monster and do you think it can compete
with my Commodore 64???

sure you did ...

I have a tube from the ENIAC. :)

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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:35:21 -0800 (PST), Carl Dau
put finger to keyboard and composed:

I've just bought an ENIAC on the local flea-market but this
computer is really full of "bugs".

How can I fix this monster ...

Give these guys a call:
http://www.tnmoc.org/ColRbd.htm

... and do you think it can compete with my Commodore 64???

Try the Cipher Challenge:
http://www.tnmoc.org/cipher1.htm

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Smitty Two wrote in message
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In article
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Carl Dau wrote:

I've just bought an ENIAC on the local flea-market but this
computer is really full of "bugs".

How can I fix this monster and do you think it can compete
with my Commodore 64???

Dude, it is time to upgrade. Have you looked into the Amiga line?


I've got a 56 bit (sorry, not byte) core store if you need a memory upgrade.

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In article , Sam Goldwasser writes:
CJT writes:

Carl Dau wrote:

I've just bought an ENIAC on the local flea-market but this
computer is really full of "bugs".
How can I fix this monster and do you think it can compete
with my Commodore 64???

sure you did ...

I have a tube from the ENIAC. :)

A 12AX7?

It's a shame, but I lost a two-tube circuit board I once had from a 50's
computer - a Bendix I think - with two 6146 beam power tubes, part of the
drum memory head driver circuitry. Maybe two in parallel to feed a head?
[shades of Gracie Slick...]

What a concept.

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On Feb 7, 6:16*am, (George Cornelius)
wrote:
I have a tube from the ENIAC. :)

A 12AX7?


More likely a 12AV7 or maybe a 12AZ7.

It's a shame, but I lost a two-tube circuit board I once had from a 50's
computer - a Bendix I think - with two 6146 beam power tubes, part of the
drum memory head driver circuitry. *Maybe two in parallel to feed a head?

A "pointed little head"? ;)


[shades of Gracie Slick...]

What a concept.

How to repair an ENIAC???
 

In article
,
boardjunkie wrote:

On Feb 7, 6:16*am, (George Cornelius)
wrote:
I have a tube from the ENIAC. :)

A 12AX7?


More likely a 12AV7 or maybe a 12AZ7.

None of the above; baseless miniature tubes like those didn't show up
until quite a while after the ENIAC was developed.

Most likely it would be a 6SN7, though other octal-based tubes of
similar vintage were used too.

Isaac

How to repair an ENIAC???
 

isw writes:

In article
,
boardjunkie wrote:

On Feb 7, 6:16*am, (George Cornelius)
wrote:
I have a tube from the ENIAC. :)

A 12AX7?


More likely a 12AV7 or maybe a 12AZ7.

None of the above; baseless miniature tubes like those didn't show up
until quite a while after the ENIAC was developed.

Most likely it would be a 6SN7, though other octal-based tubes of
similar vintage were used too.

Probably. It's definitely octal. No idea if it's original though.

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isw wrote:

In article
,
boardjunkie wrote:

On Feb 7, 6:16 am, (George Cornelius)
wrote:
I have a tube from the ENIAC. :)

A 12AX7?


More likely a 12AV7 or maybe a 12AZ7.

None of the above; baseless miniature tubes like those didn't show up
until quite a while after the ENIAC was developed.

Most likely it would be a 6SN7, though other octal-based tubes of
similar vintage were used too.

Isaac


It was he industrial version, the 5962.


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