12 Dec
2024
12 Dec
'24
9:48 p.m.
Hi Tony,
Many thanks for this manual. I've already identified some dried out
capacitors in my readers, once they have been replaced I can use the manual
to go through the setup procedures.
Thanks for the offer of the HSR500 manual but I already have an electronic
copy of it, I think from Bitsavers.
I have been able to compress your manual down to under 8Mb using a free
trial of an online Adobe utility.
https://www.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html
Thanks once again for your help.
As an aside, I saw in the conversation thatsomeone thought the UDR700 was
used on the Ferranti FM1600B. When I was a Ferranti apprentice in the
early 1970s I worked in the FM1600B commissioning area in Doncastle Road
Bracknell. The only reader used then was a rebadged ICL TRM 1000. With
this reader you really did have to aim the tape into the collection basket!!
Kind Regards,
Malcolm Clark
On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 at 18:28, Tony Duell <ard.p850ug1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM Malcolm Clark via
cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi Martin,
I am looking for a manual for the above tape reader and found your
details
from a discussion on cctalk from July 2022.
I am a volunteer at The National Museum of Computing and an ex Ferranti
engineer. I am currently restoring an Argus 500 computer and trying to
get
it back to its original configuration. I have
recently restored 2 Trend
HSR 500 readers and now have acquired 2 UDR 700 readers that need to be
fixed and set up.
I've uploaded the UDR350/UDR700 manual to my google drive here :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tqFbQ9S1SJd4DwsR6J7qlBiEWVpbmKnc/view?usp=…
It's a _LARGE_ file, you might be able to compress it somehow. Please
let me know when you've taken it so I can delete it to save space on
the googled drive, of course I'll keep a copy on my machine.
Do you also need the HSR500/HSR500P manual? I have that too.
My latest video on YouTube
https://youtu.be/8HtRqe6jzc8?si=MmRL4qbh_7PZjVff
In the email you said you had scanned the document into a file. Would it
be possible to upload it to Google Drive and send me the link so I can
download it? Ultimately I would like to upload it to the Museum archive
and make it available for everyone to view. I am assuming that there are
no copyright issues as Trend was finally wound up as a company in
December
2022.
It's probably still under copyright owned by somebody, but my
experience is that companies don't normally care about 50-year-old
service manuals.
-tony