15 Feb
1999
15 Feb
'99
12:34 p.m.
You wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I went back and checked. There are a number of software disks, four pods
labeled "Interactive State Analyzer", ribbon cables, an IBM interface board,
a "State Analyzer Demo Board", and two versions of manuals. There is also a
stick of chips with a label saying Input Chips, and to keep spares as they
are sensitive to static damage. Haven't quite figured out why it was in
there, but there is an IBM UCSD P-System Runtime Support package version
IV.0. Just starting to make sure the disks are readable now.
The ISA card goes in a target machine. Mine is a PC-2 (5 slot 4.77MHz PC)
with a 15Mb disk. All it does is run the Northwest Instruments box. I
also have a pod that attaches to a 64-pin socket that has a 68000 chip
on the top and pins below. You pry out your 68K and stick this tower in
its place, and it traces the last 4096 bus accesses and disassembles the
code in real time. Quite a box, if you have all the components. I used
mine to prove to a hardware designer that his board was faulty (he swapped
UDS and LDS on the 68000 socket, preventing byte-reads from working).
-ethan
I picked up a Northwest Instruments MicroAnalyst 2000 today...
I have one of those. It's a logic/bus analyzer tool. Did you
get any pods with it?