1 May
2006
1 May
'06
7:17 p.m.
Joe R. wrote:
At 11:55 PM 4/26/06 -0700, you wrote:
The top card goes into the "chassis" (it's about the size of a
mini-AT tower but considerably heavier due to the power supply).
The white connector along the bottom edge of the card mates
with the "backplane" in the chassis. (and, actually *supports*
the card... I don't believe there are any "card guides" in
the chassis!)
The lower "box" is the "pod". Ribbon cables connect it to the
card (above). Often, (always?) those ribbon cables have two
(or even THREE) IDC connectors on the end at 1" intervals
to connect to that card plus adjacent cards in the chassis
(e.g., the high speed memory card). Note that this pod and
the aforementioned card are a *set* -- two halves of a
"ribbon cable interface", so to speak.
Later (newer) pods had more brains in them so the emulator
cards got simpler... (but the pods got BIGGER!)
The 40 pin DIP "plug" attaches the pod to your target hardware.
(a good idea is to slip another machined pin DIP socket onto
that plug so that any pins that get broken are on the *socket*
and not the plug itself -- even if the plug already has a
socket snapped onto it!)
If you can find a chasis, I can try to find the debugger
software for this particular CPU...
Joe R. wrote:
> Oh, what the hell! I sent outside and dug the rest of the stuff out of
> the car. Here's what I have:
>
> 6800/02/08, 65xx, 8085, Z-80 and 27xx (programmer?). Looks like a nice
> collection of vintage stuff!
Here at last is a picture of one of the American Automation (American
Arium EZ-Pro) boards and pods that I found. This is the 6800/02/08 board
and pod. <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/Xeon/American%20Automation%206800.jpg>