12 Dec
2024
12 Dec
'24
12:48 p.m.
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.
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.
Hope to hear from you soon
Kind Regards
Malcolm Clark
12 Dec
12 Dec
6:28 p.m.
New subject: Information on Trend UTR 700 Paper Tape Reader and Facit 4060 Punch
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
9:48 p.m.
New subject: Information on Trend UTR 700 Paper Tape Reader and Facit 4060 Punch
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
13 Dec
13 Dec
9:04 a.m.
New subject: Information on Trend UTR 700 Paper Tape Reader and Facit 4060 Punch
The Centre for Computing History at Cambridge, UK have have a UDR700
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/16227/Ferranti-Paper-Tape-Reader/ and interface
drawings for a Ferranti FM1600B; I believe they also have the machine : all extracted from
HMS Dryad in the 90's IIRC. With notice they can provide access to the paperware (for
the interfaces) - I have photographed the ccts. However, it has been through technical
writers and I could find no insightful prose. I doubt what I have adds to Tony's
UDR700 manual and your Argus knowledge.
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Clark via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: 12 December 2024 21:49
To: Tony Duell <ard.p850ug1(a)gmail.com>
Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>rg>;
Malcolm Clark <malcolmc.home(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Information on Trend UTR 700 Paper Tape Reader and Facit 4060
Punch
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=sharing
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
12 Dec
12 Dec
10:43 p.m.
New subject: Information on Trend UTR 700 Paper Tape Reader and Facit 4060 Punch
Tony
Thank you for responding to this query earlier, as you did to my query in Summer
'22.
I have had a quick "go" at compressing the big pdfs, brute force Acrobat Pro
looks not to cut it, to avoid pixelation the circuits require little compression and to
reduce volume the text requires more compression. Therefore, either human effort or a
better tool is required ...
FWIW having downloaded your google drive version of the file I could not open it.
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: 12 December 2024 18:29
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: Malcolm Clark <malcolmc.home(a)gmail.com>om>; Tony Duell
<ard.p850ug1(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Information on Trend UTR 700 Paper Tape Reader and Facit 4060
Punch
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
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