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*** Saving Flossie 2013 ***
The Arrival.
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" Flossie has Arrived "
The Story of the Move !
Getting the machine ready to go, a team of willing volunteers had worked hard
to ensure the machine is dismantled and packed along with a host of spares to
get it underway by the 25th of February.
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All Packed up and ' Somewhere to Go '
All ready for the journey back in Feb 2013 !
Many of the willing team who lent a hand AND made it happen
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Boxes and bodies everywhere.
The Arrival into storage !
After a considerable wait , the project team we're delighted to discover that the machine has arrived safely at the TNMOC store. This has started the team on the forming of a new plan to implement the project and at the same time continue with current objectives.
In the long term once a location is found , a partial ( Processor only ) installation can be implemented and as space permits the Magnetic Tape Data Transfer Unit can be added behind the machine once the CPU is up and running again.
Until such time as this can be started the project has come back together and formulated a plan to continue with the magnetic tape library capture. Using a single magnetic tape deck and if permitted working at the storage facility, all that stopped this project going forward with this proposal was the fact that we had failed to resolve software tape format decoding difficulties.
Perhaps it was the good news of the arrival or more likely just hard work from the team members but I am glad to say that within the last week the team has resolved the issue of decoding tape images by software and now have recovered at least one full program tape of historic object code software.
The team are delighted with the support received so far and are very grateful to the CCS and its members for funding the move and saving the machine in early February this year. Further we could not think of a better place to restart than at the TNMOC so our thanks go to all the trustees and members of the TNMOC who made This happen.
Some Pictures follow
The Carry Gently team delivering the Console, with the System PSU
and half the CPU still attached. Thank god those brackets held !
Safely arrived.
Awaiting the project restart and the new team.
and also
A quick look at the store and its planned facilities
Sharing the space with other important pieces of history. Go - On ! How many can you identify ??
It is still early days, but the probability of Mag tape capture restarting here is high.
And the facilities look good.
The kind of company Flossie might keep in the near future.
The WITCH circa 1951 on display at TNMOC
