12 Nov
2002
12 Nov
'02
9:18 p.m.
I'll get it functioning again and likely, if the
KB permits, simply making a
duplicate of the 2 OS disks would be the easiest way to get it to you.
I would really appreciate that. There is nothing on any of the boards that
looks like an EPROM and there is an empty socket on the RAM/ROM board, so
this beast may not currently be able to boot. I may need a ROM dump from you.
I'll also scan the docs and eventually the other
material I have, like the
Philips newsletters, communications and advertising.
That would be great.
The cables shouldn't be a problem to replace in
an urban center.
I have the stuff to make ribbon cables. It just weirds me out that they put
the connectors on the bottom of the cases.
I might ask a favor of getting some ribbon cable in
return later on.
Can do.
It would be good to get a closer shot of the KB.
It's up now.
Do you know how close the backplane is to the S-100
configuration ?
Physically, not even close. But, judging from the way the modules are
broken out and the fact that it uses an 8080 I would imagine that there
are similar signals on the bus. I may try to sit and puzzle out what
is on the bus tonight, but I've had a long day and probably won't get
too far. You don't have schematics in any of your docs?
Bill