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Lenaerts Notebook 35 (19 Jan - 16 Apr 1962)

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Notebook kept by Ernest Lenaerts during his work on the LEO computer.

Includes entries:

NB35-001:    Front cover
NB35-002:    Inside front cover. January 19 1962, field research projects, stool for wiring LEO III
NB35-003:    To do list, current calculations
NB35-004:    Fault sheet for Hartree, how much for LEO II/2, RF cable problems
NB35-005:    Jan 15 1962, log of LEO II/2, store collapse, tubes failing
NB35-006:    Description of transferring orders to [punched paper] tape
NB35-007:    Order to tape cont., getting readout
NB35-008:    January 26 1962, using back conductance, visit to Post Office to see improvements to printing
NB35-009:    Post Office printing cont.
NB35-010:    BSI Committee on paper, upgrades to EMI machine
NB35-011:    January 30 1962, long to do list
NB35-012:    To do list cont.,
NB35-013:    February 1 1962, stylus wires, Engineers meeting, LEO III/2 dispatch
NB35-014:    Maintenance time, drums on II/5, [Powers] printer
NB35-015:    Discussions on liaison between research and maintenance, testing drum
NB35-016:    Equipment for ammeter and other measurements [on drum ?]
NB35-017:    February 3 1962 and February 6 1962, printer troubleshooting, temperature at Edmonton
NB35-018:    February 5(?) 1962, poor soldering on Ampex [tape machine], drum installation
NB35-019:    Disappointed new employee, Mr Gill, vault temperatures [Edmonton]
NB35-020:    Diagrams [vault layout]
NB35-021:    Metal plating [on contacts] quality and type
NB35-022:    Plating continued,
NB35-023:    February 4 1962, plating continued and conclusions, concert on television, EMI ball race
NB35-024:    Ampex contact plating cont.
NB35-025:    Contact details for other users of Ampex tape deck
NB35-026:    February 12 1962, recommendations for LEOII/7 [Edmonton
NB35-027:    Sprockets and print position, calculation of temperature rise
NB35-028:    Platinised anodes and salts for plating
NB35-029:    Test write failure, interference problems in LEO II/4 at Averly (Ford0
NB35-030:    February 16 1962, Powers printer, Ferranti spools vs Decca and Ampex
NB35-031:    Dismantling and investigating Ampex tape deck connections, including diagrams
NB35-032:    Ampex cont.
NB35-033:    March 2 1962, meeting and contact details, tube temperature and frequency measurements
NB35-034:    German grammar notes
NB35-035:    Star delta [control], interlocks
NB35-036:    Diagrams [tape path in tape deck]
NB35-037:    Addressing store
NB35-038:    Addressing cont.
NB35-039:    Air conditioning companies, photographs of [magnetic] tape abrasion
NB35-040:    Ampex observations
NB35-041:    March 12 1962, new office arrangement, observations of damage to [magnetic] tape on deck 1
NB35-042:    [magnetic] tape damage on Deck 4, LEO !!/1 failure
NB35-043:    Discussions  with EMI, on Ferranti paper tape reader, other discussion son Elliot card reader
NB35-044:    March 13 1962, price of character discs, circuit diagram thermistor potentiometer
NB35-045:    March 14 1962, replacement cabling causing interference in store
NB35-046:    March 15 1962, interference problems in store at Averley [Ford]
NB35-047:    Requirements for investigating interference in store
NB35-048:    Reporting on Powers printer, magnetic tape, drum and valves
NB35-049:    Fault finding, considerations of paper folding and properties
NB35-050:    Diagram of store
NB35-051:    Review of faults, properties of paper
NB35-052:    Investigating surface texture of paper
NB35-053:    Contact for plastic coating, dimensions of paper samples
NB35-054:    Tests to be done on paper
NB35-055:    Diagram of paper tester, interference measurements
NB35-056:    Friction when using CAV stationery, Wiggins Tape NCR [no carbon required] stationery
NB35-057:    Measuring paper on paper friction, including diagrams
NB35-058:    March 30 1962, materials for garage door, problems with the library committee
NB35-059:    March 3 1962, jobs for Evans and Holwill at Hartree House,
NB35-060:    March 3 1962,equipment for measuring the speed of paper
NB35-061:    March 3 1962, list of  elements of some system somewhere
NB35-062:    List of equipment and processes for monitoring including alarms,
NB35-063:    HF interference, possible sources, [drum] measurements
NB35-064:    Circuit diagrams for switch and power gate, reliability, industrial control systems [Roth Industries]
NB35-065:    Floor problems, intermediate storage,2 hours mending 15,000 transistor fault incidents
NB35-066:    Cossor 1035 oscilloscope available, Avo meter, paper tape timings
NB35-067:    Microswitch failures on Samastronic printer failures LEO II/5
NB35-068:    April 9 1962, paper for printing, plate glass hold-up, photographic equipment required
NB35-069:    April 10 1962, agenda items for library meeting, frequency control problems LEO II/7
NB35-070:    April 10 1962, keeping weather records to see if explains store problems
NB35-071:    April 10 1962, ventilation for LEO II/7, LEOII/5 interference problems not due to mains
NB35-072:    Measurements on paper [for printing] and on  paper tape
NB35-073:    Cards tolerances IBM, ICT, Bull, storage and humidity, environmental rooms
NB35-074:    Paper properties, epolene c-10
NB35-075:    List of equipment,  activities and dates for LEO III/1 [move to Hartree House]
NB35-076:    April 16 1962, check long term faults, review continuous stationary, commission LEO II test rack
NB35-077:    Diagram of pulse timings,  magnetic tape, oxide dust
NB35-078:    Blank page follows, square wave diagrams
NB35-079:    Sideways text,
NB35-080:    Sideways text, some letters replace with 'X'
NB35-081:    Upside-down section of expenses and inside back cover
NB35-082:    Back cover

Date : 19th January 1962 to 16th April 1962

Physical Description : bound volume (82 pages), paper; manuscript

Provenance :
The notebooks are being digitised while on loan to The Centre for Computing History from the LEO Computers Society, with the kind permission of the Lenaerts family.



Archive References : CMLEO/EL/NB/35 , CCH LI 57

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH76458. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.
 
Article: Lenaerts Notebook 35 (19 Jan - 16 Apr 1962)

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Ernest Lenaerts
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