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Spare SMS Modules

History:
The inventory of SMS cards from Arnold Schweinsberg,
taken Nov 17th and Dec 1st by Milt Thomas, Bob Erickson and Glenn Lea. The SMS cards were stored in failing shoe boxes, and were moved to larger acid-free museum flat boxes, and marked with the source shoe box number.

"Key punching" and "data processing" by Ed Thelen ;-))

It looks like we have 116 different types of SMS cards as spares.

For a physical discussion of an SMS card click here.

Current status: as of Wednesday evening May 17, 2006

In May, 2006, Grant Saviers brought in a large 6 drawer cabinet, the bottom four of the large drawers are suitable for storing SMS cards. The contents of the museum boxes are being sorted into newly labeled dividers in the new drawers.

SMS cards donated to the 1401 Restoration Project from other sources are also in the drawers and included in this inventory. As the shipment from Germany had no spare 1403 hammer driver modules, the 12 AEC types below are from the Visible Storage 1401.

There are "excessive" numbers of some types of spares - such as do we really need 53 spare 4JMX cards in active storage? So a system of Overflow Storage boxes are being used to contain the "surplus" SMS cards.

Comments by Grant, Tue May 16, 2006: Updated to "..." as items performed 

	There were a few (5?) cards that had been "type changed" with jumpers or 
	were reconstitued from scrap (epoxied on gold fingers) or marked in pen 
	with a new type and I did not not put them into the drawers.
	...
	Here are my suggestions for what next:

	1. ... Devise some sort of paper logging of the spares usage.
	2. Identify what cards we really have no spares for, in all parts of the 
	system.
	3. Contact other 1401 owners to see if we could swap spare cards, where 
	we have way too many of one type they have a need and vica versa.  Get 
	this approved by the Museum staff first.  And/or borrow spares from the 
	VS. 1401, drives, etc.

Comments on this inventory taken Wednesday May 17, 2006

Sorted by Type * = See notes below
Type
1xxx-Cxxx 		Quantity
in active storage 		in repair? in Overflow
Storage 
1JMX
1 . . 
2JMX
6 . 23 
3JMX
6 . 42 
4JMX
8 . 45 
4JMY
0 . . 
AAF
1 . . 
ADB *
7 . . 
AEA
5 . . 
AEC *
12 . . 
AED
3 . . 
AEF
2 . . 
AEN
2 . . 
AIMX ?
0 . . 
AM
1 . . 
CAC
1 . . 
CD
1 . . 
CEA
0 . . 
CEE
23 . . 
CEH
7 . . 
CEK
2 . . 
CEM
12 . . 
CFF
1 . . 
CG
1 . . 
CGVV
9 . . 
CGVW
17 . . 
CGWW
20 . . 
CH
20 . . 
CHVV
8 . . 
CHVW
14 . . 
CHWW
16 . 40 
CJ
1 . . 
CJVU
13 . . 
CJWF
32 . 47 
CJWV
6 . . 
CJYC
27 . . 
CKVJ
2 . . 
CKVU
11 . . 
CKWF
16 . 16 
CKWV
2 . . 
CKYC
6 . . 
CL
2 . . 
CLVQ
19 . . 
CLVR
11 . 50 
CLVS
15 . . 
CLVT
4 . . 
CM
1 . . 
CNWT
21 . . 
CNWU
1 . . 
CPWT
19 . . 
CPWU
2 . . 
CQ
21 . . 
CQWW
2 . . 
CQYG
4 . . 
CQYZ
0 . . 
CQZT
9 . 35 
CQZV
64 . . 
CQZY
0 . . 
CR  *
9 . . 
CRYG
4 . . 
CRZT
16 . 27 
CRZV
6 . . 
CW
15 . 65 
CY
15 . 28
Type
Dxxx-Zxxx 		Quantity
in active storage 		in repair? in Overflow
Storage 
DAB
1 . . 
DAZ
1 . . 
DEF
0 . . 
DFJ
1 . . 
DFQ
1 . . 
DFR
1 . . 
DGP
3 . . 
DGQ
1 . . 
DGT
1 . . 
DGU
1 . . 
DGV
0 . . 
DGW
1 . . 
DGX
0 . . 
DGY
1 . . 
DHB
0 . . 
DHD
1 . . 
DHE
1 . . 
FP
1 . . 
FT
1 . . 
FW
5 . . 
GJ
2 . . 
JFVA
1 . . 
JFVN
1 . . 
JFVP
1 . . 
JG
0 . . 
JGVV
1 . . 
JGVW
2 . . 
JGWW
3 . . 
JH
1 . . 
JHVU
1 . . 
JHWV
1 . . 
JJ
1 . . 
JJVA
2 . . 
JJVN
3 . . 
JJVP
2 . . 
JLVB
12 . 29 
JMVB
10 . 16 
JN
3 . . 
JZ
7 . . 
KA
13 . . 
KDB
0 . . 
NC
1 . . 
NCNB
0 . . 
NGTF
3 . . 
NGXX
2 . . 
NJ
0 . . 
NR
1 . . 
NT
1 . . 
NU
1 . . 
PP
13 . 34 
PQ
14 . 30 
QC
1 . . 
QD
11 . 33 
QG
0 . . 
QGVV
0 . . 
QHVV
0 . . 
QU
2 . . 
RK
1 . . 
TBS
1 . . 
WL
1 . . 
YLA
3 . . 
ZJMX
2 . .
NOTES *

ADB = double wide, located in a different drawer adapted for that
AEC = "borrowed" from 1401 in Visible Storage
CR = there seems to be two different types of cards with the label "CR", one has many more components.