#system34

2024-10-07

Thought y'all might appreciate this video as the nail-biter it was for me. This is System/34 #3 in the restoration queue, and rescued from the basement of a home in Michigan. It contains the life's work of one of the first people to develop an "input method" to enter non-Latin languages with a standard keyboard. This S/34 is also one of the few that ever spoke fluent Chinese. Archiving this one is going to be a treat.

youtube.com/watch?v=qNhE3c_RBb

#ibmi #retrocomputing #system34 #gertie #crustycomputer

2023-02-08

Forgot to post this here! CC on for commentary, and SOUND ON!

youtu.be/L9Ud5QJEDF8

#System34 #ibmi #gertie

2023-01-11

Quick Gertie update: warning labels reprinted, power supply fan replaced, and AC box wiring about half stripped to de-rust the AC box. Small steps. #system34 #IBMi (well, granddaddy to IBMi :) )

A slightly more assembled system/34 than the last time I posted. Slightly. A lot of work to go still.A different view of the same slightly more assembled system/34
2023-01-08

We know how to party in Crusty Computer Land. Tonight, reforming 2.7F(!) of capacitors for the System/34. 4 of 9 done. #System34 #IBMi #CrustyComputer

A precariously balanced stack of very large, very old capacitors being tested and reformed one by one on a cluttered work desk.
jgeorgejgeorge
2022-12-08

Late update, I’ve been sick. Gertie the Dinosaur, the System/34 we rescued from Nebraska, is HERE! System and printer arrived 12/5. Both definitely rustbuckets from being stored, BUT all the actual electronics look better than I had hoped! Working on the system first, stripping it down to the frame. Gonna get the frame sanded and repainted, and then clean/restore each component as it goes back in. Fun times!

Follow along the journey: gofund.me/1ed80625

A photo of an IBM System/34 computerA photo of an IBM 5211 printerA date code of 8/24/79 stamped on the external panels. This date is when the panels were made, not the machine itself, but the machine was likely made within a few weeks after this date.

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