I have the following available:
EK-LQP02-RM-001 LQP02 Programmer Reference Manual
AA-L662A-TK Installing and Using the LQP02 Printer
AA-L662B-TK Installing and Using the LQP02 Printer
AA-L663A-TK LQPX2-AA Forms Tractor
EK-ASF02-UG-0001 Installing and Using the ASF02 Automatic Sheet Feeder
$12 for postage and packaging
Also:
EK-LN03-PS-002 LN03A Pocket Service Guide
EK-OLN03-RM-002 LN03 Programmer Reference Manual
EK-TLN03-MG-001 LN03 Series Toner Kit Guide
EK-MLN03-MG-002 LN03 Series Maintenance Kit Guide
EK-OLN03-UG-002 Installing and Using the LN03
EK-OLN03-UG-001 Installing and Using the LN03A
EK-LN03A-TM-001 LN03A Technical Manual
$20 for postage and packaging
Also:
EK-LQP03-UG-002 Installing and Using the LQP03 Printer
EK-LQP03-RM-001 LQP03 Printer Programmer Reference Manual
$ for postage and packaging
Or come by and pick them up for free...
Wrentham, MA
Joe Heck
Based on the recommendations of the list, I bought a used LeCroy 9400 scope (O.K.- I went down to Boeing Surplus and they happened
to have one close to my price range, and since it had come up on the list I knew that it would work [you can get good stuff at Boeing, but
you can also get stuff that's very good for testing the rudder system in a 757, but not for much else]. I still give you guys credit, though).
Anyway, two questions: What's a good set of resonably priced but decent probe-type things to start with? I went to a electronics shop and
was quoted $100 for a set - I'd rather not pay as much for the probes as I did for the scope if I don't have to. MCM has several listed in the
~$50 range, but I don't know what to look for or if they are any good.
(2) What's a good introduction to actually using the thing? I got the 9400 (A) manual from LeCroy [Aside - there's something really wrong
when the company recommends you buy a copy of Norton Anti-Virus to run on your SCOPE!].
I know basically what a scope does, and have used one twice, but that's it.
I also have a 555 in the garage, should I start on that and move to the DSO? I didn't ever use the 555 (had it 7 years), because it was ~110 Lbs
and no probes.
Scott Quinn
PS- regarding analog meters- been looking at them (not seriously), and haven't found much. What's a good one, and do they still make the FET
versions of the VTVM (MCM doesn't seem to list any).
it would be nice to see a copy at Borders/B & N. Im
not a ham, not yet anyway, but Ive never even heard of
it.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <aw288 at osfn.org>
wrote:
> > Another interesting publication for (ham) builders
here in the US is QEX
> > (published by the ARRL.) I have no idea how well
known it is
>
> On the northeast hamfest circuit, well known, thanks
to Finberg.
>
> > (I just happened to
> > run across a copy at the ARRL table at the TRW
swap meet) but I was impressed
> > that it had some fairly technical stuff for
builders that was more than some
> > flashing LEDs.
>
> When hams gripe about how QST has been dumbed down
so much in the
> technical and project regions, it is amazing to find
out how many _do_not_
> know about QEX. The whole point of the QST split
(old QST -> new QST and
> QEX) was to make everyone happy - one magazine for
average Joe Ham, and
> one for the hardcore project-building hams. The ARRL
seems to be very bad
> at marketing the magazine.
>
> William Donzelli
> aw288 at osfn.org
>
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-------------------Original Message:
From: Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com>
Subject: Re: atari printers - gears
>On Jun 12 2006, 1:30, Philip Pemberton wrote:
<snip>
> I'd be tempted to file a flat section on the shaft and add
a matching flat to
> the gear, or use a small screw to fix it. I'm not sure
what the lifetime of
> Loctite is, but I wouldn't want to be pulling a plotter
apart a few years down
> the line just to put some more glue on a gear...
>From memory, the gear is too small to make that practical,
even an M2
would be far too big.
<snip>
--
Pete
----------------Reply:
Indeed; the gears in question are only about 5mm (1/8") dia.
with 12
(13?) teeth. As Tony explained, as the plastic ages they
split due to
the stress of being pressed onto the motor shaft.
Although my CGP-115 was working fine when last used several
years
ago, when I dug it out recently I found that both gears had
split in
the meantime. I reamed out the centre hole a little with a
1/64"
drill to relieve the stress, put a tiny drop of superglue on
the
inside of the split and put it back on the shaft with a
gentle clamp
(to avoid deforming the fairly soft teeth). Let it dry,
carefully
scraped a bit of excess glue from between the teeth at the
split, and
so far it's survived several feet of test printing in text
mode
(which stresses the gears much more than line drawing).
What I was testing was re-inked pens. I suspect that some of
the
people who made suggestions re the pens have not seen one of
those
either; they are small ball-point pens, 24 x 5 mm (1" x
1/8") with
a very fine point (for printing 6pt characters, 80 cols on
4" paper).
There are two types, a plastic tip and a metal tip in a
plastic
sleeve. The tips are easily removed; the absorbent insert
inside the
body can also usually be removed, although that's not
necessary.
After a thorough soaking and drying they can be refilled and
reassembled; briefly put them in hot water to force ink out
the tip
to get it started, and that's it (unless it was too solidly
clogged
or corroded).
Since they have to fit into a small 4-pen carousel, the
shape and
size is pretty critical so they can't be replaced with any
generic
pens. It might be possible to replace the metal tip with a
cut-off
ballpoint refill, although a normal refill might not work
very well
since the pens are mounted horizontally.
YMMV,
mike
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Bryan Pope wrote:
Arrgh!! You didn't see You-do-it Electronics?!?!
( http://www.youdoitelectronics.com ) They are the best place in the
area for parts / kits / books / tools and they have good prices too!
MARCH is having a New England road trip this fall and that is one
place we will be visiting... (along with the Flea at MIT)
Cheers,
Bryan
--------------------------------------------------
No I missed it, relying instead on 30 year old memories. Obviously, I
should have asked somebody who knew the
area. I hang my head in shame.
For the link.
Billy
Talking with group that has a SEL810A that is still running today in their
business. They plan on turning if off for good on Wednesday. I got my
fingers crossed. :-) John
Hi,
I have been working on my 11/44 for a while and finally
go it to boot and find the drives. (RA80's) I believe
it had more than the (2) I have. Drive ID buttons say
0 and 2.
The system booted RSTS 1 time and of coarse asked for the
password. I shut down the system and went back to the
"books" for a while. I then tried to boot it up again
the next day and receive the following.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
CONSOLE
17777707 173064
>>>~
CONSOLE
17777707 173012
>>>
User-defined address for Device DZ1: not found - device disabled.
(this was there before)
RSTS V8.0-07 EVERETT XXXXXXXX (DU0) INIT V8.0-07
Option: START
Disk is being rebuilt - wait ...
DU0 Error UDASA P.OPCD P.STS P.BCNT P.BUFF P.BUF2 P.LBN
000000 000241 000010 000000 000000 000000 000000
Unrecoverable disk error on DU0
PC=121232 PS=030341 OV=000022 M5=001600 M6=003242 SP=041266
R0=000000 R1=077777 R2=042125 R3=172150 R4=041410 R5=140026
SP-> 026220 000006 000002 150103 000001 041410
Fatal RSTS/E system initialization error!
Option: HELP
The valid RSTS initialization options are:
DSKINT Initialize disk to RSTS file structure
COPY Copy minimal system to disk
PATCH Patch a file
HARDWR Set controller characteristics
INSTALL Install a monitor SIL
REFRESH Manipulate files in [0,1]
DEFAULT Set monitor defaults
SET Set device characteristics
START Start timesharing
<LF> Start timesharing (fast)
BOOT Bootstrap a device
SAVRES SAVE or RESTORE a RSTS/E disk
IDENT Display version of INIT and installed SIL
HELP Type this HELP message
FILL Set console fill for INIT
Only the first two characters need be typed.
Option:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I would guess it has disk/File problems of some sort. I
know very little about RSTS and it looks like its
a steep learning curve. The second drive has some kind
of internal control problems and shuts off if it is accessed
by the 11/44. it was left (Off). The system has been setting
for 10 years before I got it. I try to keep each system
intack if possible. The Dead TU80 is my next project. On
the bright side it did come with a SCSI card.
Thanks, Jerry
Jerry Wright
JLC inc
g-wright at att.net
Hi,
Finally getting around to some spring pdp-11 hacking. I managed to boot
2.11BSD on my 11/44 this morning :-) Now I want to (slowly) add
peripherals.
I discovered I have an RX11 board (quad width) and I think I want to try
and connect it to an RX02 drive box.
Anyone know the basic difference between an RX11 and an RX211? Can you
plug an RX02 into an RX01? I really only want RX01 to be honest.
Something tells me I need an RX211 but i thought i'd be lazy and ask here.
M7846 RX11 U RX01 floppy disk controller
M8256 RX211 U RX02 floppy disk controller
-brad
Tony Duell wrote:
>Message: 33
>Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:24:50 +0100 (BST)
>From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
>Subject: Re: atari printers - gears
>To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>Message-ID: <m1FpXQX-000IxxC at p850ug1>
>Content-Type: text/plain
>>
>>On 6/11/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>> > You can just throw your bad one away and get a new one. There's a guy
>> > selling 825 printers for $10 the each, NOS on Yahoo!:
>>
>>That's one of the reasons I bought a handful of printer mechs from
>>Alltronics or Electronic Goldmine or one of those guys... spare gears.
>> The problem is that what I got was about 90% defective.
>That was my first thought. These gears don't fail because they wear out in
>use, they fail due to stresses generated by them being pushed onto the
>speindle. Severaal of mine have failed without being used.
>
>Personally, I'd want to use a metal gear that was a sliding fit onto the
>motor sprindle, and then fix it on with a suitable Loctite.
>
>Somebody else suggested replacing all 3 gears in each train. Difficult. The
>last gear is part of the platten or cable drum, and is, in fact 2 gears wit
>han anti-backlash spring IIRC. All these parts could be made, but you're
>not going to find them off-the-shelf. And if you're going to start 'm,king
>swarf'[1], why not just make the pinion you need.
>
>[1] A common UK expresion for doing home machining, for the obvious reason.
>-tony
This topic came up several years ago. At that time, I emailed Tony about a
shop in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, that makes gears for model
railroad locomotives (I recently emailed Ethan offlist with the same
information). I don't recall if Tony ever checked them out. I'd contact them
myself, but I don't have an Atari printers to measure the gear.
Anyway, for the information of the whole list, they are:
Gear Services (Letchworth) Ltd.,
The Wynd East,
The Wynd,
Letchworth Garden City,
Hertfordshire,
SG6 3EL
United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 (0) 1462 685327
Fax: +44 (0) 1462 677821
Their Web site is http://www.ultrascale.co.uk/ggs0001.php.
They can produce the following spur gears:
48 DP from 12 teeth upwards
60 DP from 12 teeth upwards
64 DP from 13 teeth upwards
72 DP from 13 teeth upwards
96 DP from 18 teeth upwards
100 DP from 15 teeth upwards
0.4 MOD. from 21 teeth upwards
0.5 MOD. from 15 teeth upwards
The price for a small gear (e.g., 15 tooth 100DP) is /Pounds 1.11, so it
should not be outrageous to have a custom gear made.
Bob
Old "Pizza-box" style PC - Dunno if it's a '286, but it's about that class
of machine. Comes with an internal IDE drive (usually 40Meg - and was
Tandy's "SmartDrive" version, which I *think* was one of the rare 8-bit
compatible IDE drives). Built-in VGA, 1.44Meg Floppy, one expansion slot (I
would assume ISA, but don't quote me) comes with DeskMate, with IIRC the
"Recipe" option; as this was designed/marketed (believe it or not) as a
"Kitchen Computer," again IIRC. These were designed/marketed slightly
*after* I worked for Tandy as a sales monkey; I mostly knew/sold the units
in the SX/SL/TX/TL/TL2/TL3 class of machines.
VGM-220 Monitor, printer (DMP-130? - I'd have to look again) and manuals.
Some docs; I didn't take inventory. Does not have a keyboard - it uses a
Mini-DIN-6, but I don't know if they use an AT-compatible keyboard, or one
of Tandy's own creations. Haven't tested it, but I can.
If no takers by VCM-MW 2.0, it may enter an "undefined" state. It *may*
become "more classic" by gutting the case for a nice compact CoCo3
repackage, or it *may* become "less classic" by retrofitting a MiniITX-like
motherboard & turn it into a Linux router or fileserver.
Either way, I have no use for the hardware as-is, so either save it from
the evil "Merch" who intends to use it for cruel & disgusting things, or
weep quietly enough that you don't disturb my maniacal laughing as it gets
renamed Igor & goes on the operating table...
;^>
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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