My friend Tien is coming up tomorrow morning to assist me with troubleshooting the AVL Compu-Dobby. I'm excited! I'm also nervous, because because because what if...???!! Software will be loaded onto the PC I'm planning to use for the Compu-Dobby, the Compu-Dobby itself is all mounted, most of the cables are in place (there are a few I'm not totally certain about; seems that some of the cables from the huge pile of cables that came with the Compu-Dobby are duplicates. Hopefully we will figure all that out tomorrow. Doesn't seem overly-complicated, though before me lie the learning curves of the software, and of the behavior of the Compu-Dobby; I already well know the way the mechanical parts of the loom work (how the cables work, the dobby fingers, etc, and I've had more than a year of troubleshooting those parts) so that will help.
And if for some reason we can't get the Compu-Dobby working again, I can always remount the mechanical dobby, and switch to the new system of plastic strips holding the wooden bars together, which will allow me to purchase more wooden bars and thus have longer chains of a repeat.
Crossing fingers!
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