<br>Hi,<br><br>This brings back memories, or nightmares. When I was at Rochester Institute of Technology we received SN1013, in 1975 (maybe 1974). It lived up to being the 13th machine built. Lots of issues. We received it in the spring and had the FE, Mike Kukus (sp?), commission the machine in the fall. It took him four weeks. When he asked me about Field Mod Notes, I said what FMNs? He called RCA and they sent him 70+ FMNs to install. We only had one machine, so no swapping modules! Many FEs passed through RIT. I remember talking to Chris Smith a lot.<br>
<br>After about a year, it settled down. I remember changing out all of the fuse holders on the Acme (road runner approved?) power supply due to weak fuse springs. All the wires were black color.<br><br>I was working on the machine one day and left the room. One of our directors said that I had mess in Master Control. I said yes, schematics, scope, tools and so on. He said go look. I had tape everywhere. Both reel motors un-wound the tape. Another problem......<br>
<br>Then there were all the<em> </em>intermittent coax conectorson the mother board. The connectors on the mother board were press fit into the holes. If you pulled on the cable, it came off of the mother board. Big soldering iron fixed that.<br>
<br>And we call them the good old days...........<br><br>1013 is probably is a landfill somewhere.<br><br>Good luck!<br><br>Randy<br>K7AGE<br>