I've been working on a machine since early October that has seen a very
rough life. My inventory found it to be an IV/70 that was upgraded with an
IV/90 expansion chassis, an NP80 peripheral controller and a Wangco tape
system that I only received the the formatter for. I've been trying to
document most of the work so far on the vcfed forum and have a massive
payload of board and cable photos & board slot arrangements. There was also
boards for additional communication, disk and printing options I did not
receive and by backwards chance whie I do not have a terminal display I DO
have a keyboard, so that suddenly makes a keyboard-less terminal
considerably more desireable to me. I've sent a copy of the images off to Al
and to Gil Carrick over at the MITA but if anyone here wants a copy I can
send them a compressed file. It's 720mb in total. He has also supplied me
with some extra information and offered to loan a few items to assist in
testing but he has software and card stacks I currently cannot image and are
currently not imaged anywhere else that I have found. At this point I've
nailed down power supply and capacitor issues and am still working with
cabling and very, very little documentation, so I'm starting to run into
problems finding solutions for a number of problems regarding damaged
components and the IV/90 interconnect. I don't have the original IV/70
boardset for debugging.
Sellam, it was alluded that one point you also had a system. Is that still
the case? Does anyone have any additional information that can be grouped
together while I'm working to get this machine running again?
-John
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