PDP-8 /e/f/m memory

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:33 -0400, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:26 am, Allison wrote:
> > I shave off the top of the DS1287s and replace the cell.  It's easy to find
> > the battery on those as it's magnetic!
> 
> Interesting!  What tooling do you use to do this?

Don't know about the original poster, but I plug them into a scrap
ethernet card, and carefully remove the epoxy with a grinder.  Probably
a small dremel-type tool would be better than a 4" angle grinder, but I
haven't had any failures yet.

Gordon.