Hello,
I have a non-functioning VT100. I think I may have isolated the problem to
an Intel 8228 chip (or 88228, the schematic says 8228, the part is marked
88228C). Certainly, the part gets a bit hot and it doesn't seem to be
outputting anything on the I/O W pin (pin 27) despite activity on STSTB (pin
1), DBIN (pin 4) and WR (Pin 3). There is no activity on the HLDA input
though, but I am not sure if that is required because I think the firmware
is just trying to send its status to the keyboard LEDs.
I can find a brief datasheet for the 8228 but it doesn't tell me the logic
for producing the I/O W signal, so I am not sure if it is behaving as it
should. Does anyone have more comprehensive information on how the 8228 is
supposed to work?
I have dumped the ROMs and been able to capture the ROM reads and they match
the disassembled code, so I think the 8080 CPU itself is working.
Thanks
Rob