Well, DEC did have a habit of "parceling out" their documentation a bit.
Point taken that not everything is there.
Sometimes they did. SOmetiems they didn't. The VT240 printset includes
the VR201 monitor and LK201 keyboard, for example.
I asusme there were otehr pritnsets for the extra bits of the Rainbow,
like the graphicvs board.
If you do (or ever) catch the scanning-bug I'd
certainly be interested in
the output :->.
I think I would do it a board/module at a time. Probably not worth doign
the CPU board the RX50 controller, VR201 or LK021, sinceofficial prints
for those exist. But the other add-on boards (had disk, RAM, graphics),
the RX50 drive (I have never seen a print for that [1]), the PSU and the
VR241 [2] would be worth getting scanned..
[1] The physical design of that drive is IMHO ridiculous. You can't get
to the stepper motor screws wit hall the PCBs in place. So you need a set
of extdenr cables (which AFAIK were never supplied) to do a head
alignment. ARGH!
[2] This is a Hitachi chassis. The PSU is even worse than most. It is
drive -- once the thing gets going, by a widnign on the flyback
transformer. So the PSU runs at the horizontal scan frequency, which
means ripple of nteh supply liens will be less noticeable (slight
shaddowing is a lot less of a problem if it doesn't drift across the screen).
There si a seaprate osicalltor to get it going, which is disabled when a
capacitor cahrges druing startup.
So for the PSU to run and stay running not only must the chopper, etc, be
OK, but slo the deflecion IC (on a thick film hybrid module, as is
typical of Hitachi), the orizontal output stage, the flyabck transfomrer,
etc. Sorting this montiro out is a right pain. Don't ask...
-tony