BitWiz

Hello,

you may have a look here:
https://retrobyte.de/reparatur-eae.html
Sorry, thats in german language. Maybe you can see from the connector side, which kind of EAE layout you have. There are two!
It's too long ago to have mor details in mind, but last week I got an other pair of EAE and I may be in the same situation to debug this.

- I would insert the capacitors back to the board.
- I would insert the Cards without Top Connectors and test the CPU Instructions 1 + 2.
- then I would start to insert the top connectors one after one beginning from the front. Always test the CPU instructions.

If everything is ok for the CPU instructions you may test EAE instruction tests1 +2. If both tests are working you are ready.
Depending on the problems you get while testing, the Top Connectors help you indentifying the location of a root cause of problems.

You may have a look at the shmatics of the EAE in the old version you find on my site. There are the connectors ant the pins described and also the version of the board they neeed.

Regards,
Volker

The only things I have that could be used on a PDP 8 are PDP 11 cross over disks RK05 etc.

I can’t be sure if I need any additional memory as I have no idea yet how many of the cards I have that are faulty.

Going by previous experience I am certain I will need at least 1 board so I would appreciate buying any spare working PDP 11 memory that you have.