Well, I seem to have gotten my power supply straightened out. It wasn't
the switch after all, but the power supply itself. A different problem
has now manifested itself.
On power on I am getting this on the console:
Error 61
M8190 Clock Error
It then spits out the contents of various registers and asks if I want
to run the test again.
I couldn't find this particular error via the normal search engines.
Does any have any ideas as to what the problem may be and how to correct
it?
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Christopher McNabb <cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net>
The McNabb Family
Martin,
I have a working old Commuter as well, with the LCD screen. Well, at least
it worked the last time I checked, some years back. I can check again and if
so, I'd be happy to sell you the whole thing if you wish, for some small
price. Shipping will probably be the bigger cost. Assuming you haven't
already found an LCD screen or moved on to another project.
Let me know,
Paul Haase
San Rafael, CA
I have a Visual Commuter laptop which I purchased new and still works. It's
stored securely in a closet. Unfortunately, I didn't purchased a LCD
display for it. Would you by chance know where I may purchased an LCD?
This will meet the on-topic age requirement, at least...
For programming devices like processors and EPROMS with an Intel Universal
Programmer,
a file format was used, called "IPPS." I need to program 8749 processors
>from files
in IPPS format, and have no working Universal Programmer.
The format appears to be a block-oriented binary, with a file header
identifying the
target device, and headers of indeterminate size preceding sections of
binary code.
Nobody I spoke to at Intel recognizes it.
Does anybody remember, or have access to, documentation/data or (dreaming
in Technicolor(R))
a utility to convert IPPS files into a less-unique format, say binary or
Intel Hex? This
would save me from having to type in hex values from an old listing to
regenerate the code.
Help!
Bob Maxwell
Tel: (905) 792-1981 x313
rmaxwell(a)atlantissi.com
heheheheeee I just have to ask, but I bet it's not around....
Anyone have the 800bpi NRZI option board for an M4 data tape drive?
Jay West
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I have an HP diagnostics pack on 7900 media that I would like to put on 1/2
bootable mag tape. According to the manuals on the diganostic configurator,
going from 7900 to 7970 media isn't directly supported by the configurator
diag initialization routine. It does say that the way to do it is to boot up
DOS or RTE and copy the binary images from disk to tape.
I know nothing about DOS or RTE. From what I can tell DOS should be much
easier to set up quickly and require less knowledge/learning than RTE. I
have no desire to learn DOS or RTE, I just want to get something up quickly
and temporarily that will let me copy the diag suite from 7900 pack to 7970
mag tape. Does anyone here know how to install DOS on a 2100/7900/7906
system and what commands to use to copy the diag absolute binary images from
disk to tape? I'd appreciate the quick "cheat sheet" version.
Thanks!
Jay West
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I have 3 complete systems, all working. All upgraded to 512k.
Two desktop cases, one w/single 5 1/4", one w/two 5 1/4"
(PCW can be config'd to use both, instead of 3" A:, 5 1/4" B:)
One contains a home-made (wire-wrapped) ser/par interface
Two spare 5 1/4" drives
Chips for 2 more memory upgrades
A few printer ribbons
Numerous Public Domain prog's, on 3" and 5 1/4"
A couple of dozen 3" diskettes, all written to.
A couple of year's worth of the PCW SIG Newsletters
(Al Warsh's UG)
Various PCW app's -
Mini-Office Professional
DBase II
LocoScript II
more - I can't recall exactly, but will look for it if you ask about it.
Let me know if you're interested.
Thanks,
Jim
Wow -- these are funny computers. If I'm not mistaken the Aspect 3000
is a more modern looking machine than the Bruker/Nicolet one that
Sellam has pictures of. I'd love to see a picture of it if you can
get one.
It has semiconductor memory. It uses some bit-slice ALU or other. The
disk drive that's with it, if it's a removable type, is probably RK05
compatible, although I read that later models supported SCSI disks.
I used one of these in graduate school that was part of an
experimental NMR imager (this was before the marketing types came up
with "MRI" to get rid of the word "nuclear"). It came with an
assembler and Pascal compiler. If I'm not mistaken the OS was called
Adakos. It was a two-task foreground/background thing. Our
application program was called Tomikon, but I think the one used for
analytical work was called DISNMR.
Sad to say I can't remember the history of the Bruker/Nicolet link.
It may be that Bruker started out making just spectrometers and
originally bought their computers from Nicolet (or vice versa). But,
I believe that the Aspect 3000 was entirely Bruker's creation. Back
the mid to late 80's, they were making and selling these out of
Karlsruhe, Germany, and had a sales/support office in Billerica, MA.
I spent a week at the Karlesuhe factory for training.
These machines are probably still in use in the basements of
University chemistry departments and possibly in corporate labs. If
the University that has it doesn't want it, they might find a taker
by posting on one of the NMR newsgroups. Or, someone with a keen
interest in bizarre Pascal implementations should rescue this.
Brian
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We'll be in St. Louis this weekend. Any good museums, junk shops, or
other recommended geek destinations in the area? GPS coordinates happily
accepted. :-)
