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After many board changes IRIS appears to be working again, the big move has allowed us to open a new gallery and a number of museum projects are progressing at a fast pace

Donated equipment in several rooms is moved in preparation for a new gallery opening, the ICL 2966 is feeling its age with many problems being discovered and progress on a number of new galleries

A working ICL console means the focus is now on the DCU, IRIS's RDI fault remains elusive, talking to computers and an unusual heater comes to the rescue when things get cold... Plus other news

An interesting electrical fault on the Elliott 803, the ICL 2966 console is finally working, IRIS may be working again and news on other projects and galleries.

The problems with the Elliott 803 2nd store have 'gone away', IRIS has a setback with the RDI fault returning and progress is made on some of the new galleries and projects.

The 'Boffin' finds and fixes a real hardware logic fault in the Elliott 803, The TAC ticks again after being idle for over 2 years and searching the ICL document archive finds the elusive 2966 Ops console circut diagrams.

The hot weather has been playing tricks on IRIS causing a number of random reboots and parity errors are occurring again in the top 8K of core store on the Elliott

The Harwell / WITCH dekatron computer arrives with lots of press coverage, Elliott 803 tape reader and 2nd store are working well and progress on new galleries.

The 3rd of Sept 2009 will be the day 'it' arrives, the Elliott tape reader bears all for a service and the weather holds out (Brrrr just) for another afterhours volunteer BBQ.

The ICL 2966 main cabinets were run up for over an hour using the new air ducting, the Electronic Office is completely cleared ready for the builders and the workshop decorating continues.