On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Terry Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> A few months ago I picked up some Polycorp Polys, a computer designed > specifically for the educational market in New Zealand. One worked and one > didn't. The latter is now fixed. As usual I've written it up with lots of > pictures. If anyone is interested you can read about it here. > > http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2017-01-08-second-poly1-fix.htm > > Cheers > > Tez > Nice fix! It always amazes me how little of the inside of this sort of machine was actual digital electronics, and how much was power, video and sometimes drives. I brought a TeleVideo TPC-1 back to life a few months ago, and your restoration brings back memories (some of them cringeworthy). -- Ian -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
