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2008 Activities

Apr 17	Added Presentation to the Product and Market Planning Seminar, Deauville, France - Friday. May 6, 1960
Apr 17	Added Two IBM 1401 Principle Founders found!!
Apr 16	Added Dan McInnis - BigPRINT-Tape - listing, instructions, ...
Apr 03	Added ROPE (Ron's Own Programming Environment) - Version 0.7
Apr 03	Added Photos from IBM 1401 era and about submitting photos
Mar 24	Added SMS Card Comments
Mar 23	Added Visitor's impressions and images
Mar 18	Added VSnyderDumpSimH-FormatTapes.html
Mar 13	Added Grinding 729 tape drive capstans from Grant Saviers, 650 K Bytes, lovely pictures.
Mar 10	Added Origins of the IBM 1401
Mar 7	Added (checked Mar 12) 729 card tables 729 Mod V Plugging sorted by location and 729 Mod V Plugging sorted by card type
Jan 31	Added IBM PC Controlled Keypunch tech details (.ppt) http://www.apropos-logic.com/ROPE1401v05.zip now includes everything needed to make ROPE function :-))
Jan 23	Added IBM Field Engineering Maintenance Manual 1401 Data Processing System, PDF, 8 MB, resized from Paul Pierce's web site
Jan 17	Added Punching object decks from ROPE to a keypunch
Jan 17	Added ROPE version 0.5

2007 Activities

Dec 26	Added 1401 Emulation By IBM , 360 Mod 30
Dec 17	Added SMS_Tabs_IBM_Report_Dec2007.pdf, 1.5 MByte
Dec 14	Added Demos from HZG from Van Snyder
Dec 12	Added Proposal to Acquire & Restore the "New York 1401" 300 K Bytes
Oct 15	Added USB KeyPunch Preliminary Notes
Oct 14	Added Dave Bennet's list of unit record and 1401 manuals
Sept18	Added Docent meeting notes
Sept11	Added ROPE version 0.4 of Ron's Own Programming Environment, - can simulate reading input deck :-)) -
Sept06	Added IPL - Initial Program Load
Sept04	Added Auto Coder Examples
Sept01	Added 1401 Compatiblilty Feature in 360 Mod 30
Aug27	Started a 1401 SMS Card Cleaning page to help "organize" this effort.
Aug27	Added Taper Pins - how to
July10	Attempted to convert chaos into mere disorder, made two tables of contents, "Table of Contents - Major Topics" linking into "Table of Contents - Detail"
July02	Updated SMS-Modules-Maintenance with Ron's Bug Logs, thanks Robert
Jun30	Robert Garner's 1403 Noise
Jun18	Robert Garner's Current Status Report (June 18, 2007)
Jun11	added Grant Saviers' SMS card testing proposal
Jun11	added 3-Card 1401 Loader by Mike Cheponis - to aid hand keypunching object decks. (until we can punch decks from an assembler)
Jun02	added Low Avalanche Breakdown Hypothesis
May25	added Customer Engineering 1401 Pocket Reference Manual - added May 25, 2007 - 9 megabytes - from Anonymous
May21	added Van Snyder's e-mails
May20	added Autocoder listing of a 2,000 character version
May17	added 1401, the Dark Side addressing above 999
May13	added 1401 Diagnosing Margining.
May10	Auto Coder Remarks and listings
May04	Decimal Forever - Maybe just for fun.
Mar29	A core plane in the 1406 Extended memory has been repaired :-))
Mar22	presented/listened to plans for presenting the 1401 to future visitors to the museum exhibits staff.
Mar10	added 1401 music to 1401 movies and sounds
Mar11	added - ' Extracted from 1401 Reference Manual, 1401 Addressing, Address Modification 350K bytes '
Mar10	added updated The IBM 1401 by Robert Garner
Feb 8	added Bill Worthington Trip Report
Jan26	added update to Relay fix for Selem's 026 keypunch
Jan23	added Deck Preparation for punching by Cardamation and decks of Jan 2007
Jan17	replaced Current Status Report with latest and greatest
Jan04	added 077 Collator Diagnostic Techniques 22-6389 - from John Van Gardner, 2.1 megabyte .pdf

2006 Activities

Dec12	added Images of IBM Product Announcements since about 1966
Nov20	- added Inventory of Grant Saviers' Nov 2006 document purchase
Nov15	- added 1401 Poster by Robert Garner
Nov12	- added John Van Gardner's Unit Record CE Manuals
Nov12	- added SMS Card Tester Comments
Nov08	- added 1401 Project Demos.
Nov06	- added IBM Manual of Instruction, 29 documents providing Preventive Maintenance and Adjustments for a range of unit record equipment. Also includes general sections about circuit breakers, motors, history, ...
Oct26	- added 1403 Music, from Ron Mak - .mp3 files (about 0.4 to 2.5 megabytes each) - shortest to longest - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, Born Free, In Excelsius Deo, Blue Danube Waltz Performance rights not worked out with ASCAP :-|
Oct14	- added Documation Card Reader instructions and software
Oct02	- added Henk Stegeman's 'EBCDIC-art.AWS' file 9.33 megabytes
Sept17	- added Robert Garner's Meeting Summary
Sept16	- added Ron Crane's Report on fixing the Pacific Power 50 Hz supply
Aug23	- added Greeting the new Head Curator :-))
Aug21	- added All Hands Meeting - Wednesday September 13

Truncated here - back one year is enough :-))