- Due to big doings at the CHM, we found each other in the Oral History Room
- Attending were - Dave Bennet, Jack Grogan, Dick Oswald, Ed Thelen, Al Hoagland, Joe Feng.
- Apparently Pat Connolly had a meeting with his faculty advisor - some thought that an adequate excuse ;-))
| Dave Bennet drew the image on the left to focus our attention.
- Jack Grogan noted that there should be hardware protective circuitry,
and possibly command verification, in the servo system, such as
cutting clutch power if a limit switch is hit. Dick Oswald mentioned
that there should maybe a hardware time out function - if the seek
is not completed in a generous time, there is likely a fault and
servo power should be cut.
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- I noticed that the previous meeting (June 20) that considerable focus was on
getting a student involved.
- Later in this meeting, it was noted that getting a faculty advisor to
monitor student progress at CHM (on a weekly basis) would be a time consuming problem for the
faculty advisor.
- Focus shifted to obtaining exIBMers, similar to the success in the IBM 1401 project.
Dave Bennet mentioned that he eats lunch most Wednesdays with Herky Hanson.
(11:30 - Hi 5 Pizza, Snell and Branham) There seemed general acclaim
that Herky was a cheerful talented tinkerer and would be a valuable
addition to any team. Three of the people present had worked with Herky,
and were delighted that he might be enticed to join.
- There was talk of project organization so that much parallel activity could
continue even if someone insisted on taking a vacation. ;-)
- Defined interfaces, test jigs, subsystem test, ...
(OK, I added some buzz words, but you know what I mean ;-))
- The current human interface is not very convenient. Adequate to demonstrate
that a seek can take place, but requiring a re-compile, re-down-load
for each seek. Dick Oswald knows of LabVIEW from National Instrument.
(I (Ed Thelen) have a student edition 7.1 and am struggling to learn it.
A friend works with LabVIEW at National Instrument.)
- There was discussion of the previous episode of apparent head staying within
reading distance of the disk when the "head down" switch was turned off.
Head piston? air valve? switch? other?
- The meeting broke up - I think Joe Feng was going to give a RAMAC data demo -
I (Ed Thelen) had to split :-((
- Dave Bennet hopefully will enhance these preliminary notes.
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