Those TI 1500 machines...

The TI 1500 series UNIX machines that Isnagged off eBay a couple weeks back finally arrived on my doorstep this morning. Floating in a sea of packing peanuts in very battered boxes. *sigh*. I feared the worst but they appear to have made it more or less in one piece. Only casualty was one of the front plates (plastic) which looks like it'll be fine after some supergluing. These things are built like tanks. As the eBay listing specified, there are no hard drives. The pictures on the auction made it look like there was a drive included in one of the machines, but this was apparently removed before shipping. I was kind of hoping there'd be a drive but oh well. At least it's got a standard SCSI interface. Now to find some actual software for this thing, I'm sure that'll be easy ;). Other than that, the machines are completeand seem to be functioning properly (see the end of this mail for some diagnostic output porn, if you're into that sort of thing.) The larger of the two (it's just slightly taller than the other) has no model designation on the front (the shorter says "TI 1500 Computer", but both of them are labeled as S1505s on the rear, with S1507 processors and differing options installed. The taller POSTs as a 1507, the shorter as a 1505. Dates on EPROMs are from the early 90s. (91 and 92). The taller (1507) has a 68040 CPU (25Mhz), 64mb of RAM (30-pin 4mb simms, parity), a Communications co-processor, ethernet, and a couple of other communications adapters(a "Multidrop\V.35 and some misc "Comm Carrier" boards). Looks like the 68040 is an upgrade of sorts (looks to be official) -- the two machines have the same motherboard, but the 68040 is on a daughterboard that plugs into the 68030 socket. The shorter (1505) has a 68030 (25Mhz) with 68882and only8mb of RAM (30-pin 1mb simms, parity). Aside from a"Comm Carrier" board it also has an 8-channel async serial boardwith 8 MMJ connectors on the rear. Near the bottom on the rear there is a pair of ports (DB-25 and MMJ) labeled "DIAG PORT." I connected a standard DEC MMJ to it and at 9600N7 I get diagnostic output(see below). Other interesting things of note: There are a lot of 68K-series processors in these machines. Aside fromthe main 68040 CPU, there are two 68000 CPUs on the motherboard, one for COMM I/O, the other for SCSI (they're neatly labeled). The Communications coprocessor board contains an additional 68010. Diags indicate that the boards are Nubus, though they don't use the standard connector I'm familiar with. Looks more like PCI/microchannel. That's all for now. I've taken some pictures which I'll post later. If anyone wants more details, let me know. And if anyone knows where to find OS tapes for thisthing, I'm all ears. Thanks, Josh Diag output follows: ------------------- RESET Executing S1507 68040 F/W Rev *F in Slot C with 64MB memory Selftest BEGINS Test 00 RAM passed Test 01 PARITY passed Test 02 ICC passed Test 03 CACHE passed Test 04 MAD passed Test 05 TIMER passed Test 06 NVRAM passed Test 07 SPA passed Test 08 C-ROM passed Selftest COMPLETE Slot C CPU TESTING SYSTEM: Slot 0 CPO passed Slot 8 CPO passed Slot 9 SPC passed Slot C CPU passed Global ARB passed D=Default load, M=Menu load, R=Retest, E=Extended tests : Waiting Errors in unit D=Default load, M=Menu load, R=Retest, E=Extended tests :M Available load devices No online device D=Default load, M=Menu load, R=Retest, E=Extended tests :E Slot C CPU TESTING SYSTEM: Slot 0 CPO (TIAU 00002561095-0001 *P) COMM CARRIER & OPTION BOARD TEST NuBus Slave Cycle Memory Test passed NuBus Master Logic Test passed ROM CRC passed ICC test passed COSI registers test passed RAM pattern test passed RAM bit test passed RAM address test passed COSI timer test passed LAN ID ROM CRC test passed COSI DMA test passed Bus exception test passed PORT 0 OPTION : 3 channel MULTIFUNCTION ADAPTOR : 3 channel MULTIFUNCTION Read/Write register test passed Counter/timer test passed Adaptor board test passed ASYNC loopback test passed BOP loopback test passed DMA loopback test passed DMA BOP linked array test passed PAL state machine passed NRZI BOP loopback test passed High Speed BOP loopback test passed BISYNC loopback test passed PORT 1 OPTION : EMPTY ADAPTOR : EMPTY COMM section ARBITRATION test passed passed Slot 8 CPO (TIAU 00002571396-0001 *L) COMM CARRIER & OPTION BOARD TEST NuBus Slave Cycle Memory Test passed NuBus Master Logic Test passed ROM CRC passed ICC test passed COSI registers test passed RAM pattern test passed RAM bit test passed RAM address test passed COSI timer test passed LAN ID ROM CRC test passed COSI DMA test passed Bus exception test passed PORT 0 OPTION : MULTIDROP\V.35 ADAPTOR : MULTIDROP with printer Read write devices test passed PI/T 68230 test passed MC68440 DMA test passed MC68606 DMA test passed Transmit and receive frames test passed PORT 1 OPTION : LAN 802.3 ADAPTOR : 802.3 ETHERNET Timer test passed Internal loopback test passed Adaptor internal loopback test passed Multicast test passed CRC test passed Off board test skipped COMM section ARBITRATION test passed passed Slot 9 SPC (TIAU 00002571396-0001 *L) passed Slot C CPU (TIAU 00002571396-0001 *L) Selftest BEGINS Test 00 RAM passed Test 01 PARITY passed Test 02 ICC passed Test 03 CACHE passed Test 04 MAD passed Test 05 TIMER passed Test 06 NVRAM passed Test 07 SPA passed Test 08 C-ROM passed Selftest COMPLETE passed Global ARB passed D=Default load, M=Menu load, R=Retest, E=Extended tests :