Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi, my name is Bob (and this is my second try to make this new member post) and I live in Florida (US). I'm an electronics hobbyist "newbie" that jumped into the deep end (>10 years ago) learning electronics to make component-level repairs to my PDP-8s (and now PDP-11s and peripherals for both families of the PDPs).

I've used computers since the mid-to-late '70s, including Teletype Model 33 ASRs and punched cards. In college I had access to a Data General NOVA 1220 that was pretty much a personal...