I made a zero (was Re: Stuff I want - all I want is a "0")

[Gooijen H]

  Hello Ethan,

I have 3 RK07 drives (two connected) and I have no READY "buttons"
with numbers higher than 3.  So before you start a job on your 6
or 7, would you consider a trade?  You get a 2 and a 3 (or whatever
you want), and I get the 6 and the 7.  Instead of working with a
rasp to remove some plastic, you have to walk to the Post Office :~)

  kind regards,
- Henk.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
> Sent: maandag 2 mei 2005 5:54
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: I made a zero (was Re: Stuff I want - all I want 
> is a "0")
> 
> 
> On 5/1/05, vrs <vrs at msn.com> wrote:
> > OK, here's the followup on my attempt to make an RL02 "0":
> > 
> > http://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/zero.html
> > 
> > I think it turned out pretty well for a first attempt.
> 
> Nice job.  I was recently going through a box of plastic bits (to put
> away the handles I got from you, coincidentally), and found a 6 and a
> 7, from an RK07, no doubt (since the RL01/RL02 switches top out at
> 3)... IIRC, one can use them modulo 3 in an RL01/RL02 (i.e., these
> would work as 2 and 3) if one doesn't happen to have a full load of
> RK07s to populate with numbers.
> 
> My recollection of the old days was that 1s and 2s were harder to find
> that 0s, but probably because we never misplaced our 0s... they were
> right there on the system drives.  Somewhere in some old DEC
> reseller's warehouse there has to be an enormous box of numbers...
> much like teeth in the fabled elephant's graveyard.