Ambitions

The restoration has a destination. These are the projects this site is working toward, in rough order — and like everything else here, the results will be published as they happen.

Digitize Ted's tapes

The reason for all of it: a calibrated, properly aligned transfer of the reels my father recorded in 1978–1980. Everything else on this list serves this.

The schematic, redrawn

The tape transport schematic is a scan of a hand-drawn sheet. The ambition: capture it in KiCad — free, open-source, plain-text files — and publish both the KiCad source and a clean PDF/SVG next to the original. A schematic you can search, print and edit, not just squint at.

New copies of the boards

Scan each circuit board, redraw it in KiCad, and publish the design files plus fab-ready Gerbers, so a fresh board is an upload and a few dollars away for anyone whose original is beyond saving. First candidate: the P-12 speed board — small, single-sided, already photographed here. The schematic and the board files check each other — the netlist has to match — so each redraw proofreads the other.

Complete the manuals archive

Three dashed slots on the manuals page: the OIM-1005E operation manual, the factory service manual, the sales brochure. Scans wanted — high-resolution copies will be hosted here.