PDP-1 project milestone

[Lyle Bickley]

We should have the actual number of hour when the CHM issues their "volunteer" 
hour awards.  But my guess is: 3-3.5 hours per person (6-7) per week for one 
year is about 1,250 hours - and the project has been active for over a year!

I also think there is a lot of serendipity that occurs when you have a group 
of folks who have varied skill sets in restoration working as a team.  I'm 
confident that none of the individual team members could have made the 
progress that we made as a team - even if that individual dedicated the full 
1,250 man hours to the project. (And we all think we are GOOD ;-)

Lyle

On Thursday 03 March 2005 17:00, Eric Smith wrote:
> Tore replied to my message about the PDP-1 finally running
>
> Spacewar successfully:
> > I'll come someday. Again, congratulations, and keep up the excellent
> > work!! If I had half the skills you guys have, the PDP-7 would be
> > calculating primes by now :)
>
> Although I don't want to downplay the skills of any of the team
> members, the main thing that was required was a lot of hours of
> volunteer effort.  I'm not sure of the current total but I think it's
> well over 1000 volunteer-hours.  If you had that much time available
> you'd probably have the PDP-7 working.
>
> Eric

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