15 Apr
2011
15 Apr
'11
12:01 a.m.
Many thanx Brian!
I'll study the materials on weekend, be sure I'll enjoy this.
Wolfgang
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Wolfgang Eichberger - OE5EWL
Operating System Collector
Blog: 5ewl.blogspot.com
Homepage: www.eichberger.org
2011/4/15 Brian Wheeler <bdwheele at indiana.edu>:
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 17:55 +0200, Wolfgang Eichberger
wrote:
it seems the amazon link is the 1st edition of
the book - but i may be wrong.
thanks in advance brian for looking.
It turns out that I do have my copy of the lab manual.
I found the equivalent class (from 11 years after I took it) at
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/b441-sjoh/
It has a partial copy of a newer revision of the lab manual. ? The text
is there (nearly verbatim from the 1992 revision I have) but the
asynchronous state machine graphic is missing. ?There's a link to it,
but the link is broken. ?The wiring diagram is missing as well, but
that's probably not terribly important unless you're wirewrapping it
using PALs.
I scanned the wiring diagram, the asm pages, and the data path image and
put them at:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~bdwheele/c421_lab.pdf
Ignore the scribblings on them, its mostly from where I was marking
where I'd finished things. That was one class I didn't doodle in!
The final exam for this class was pretty awesome since the AI would come
in and break our machines several different ways and we'd have to use
the DEC diagnostics program and repair whatever damage had been done. ?I
believe that pretty much everything was fair game from modifying the
PALs, rewiring bits, putting chips in backwards, swapping chips, etc.
I'm pleased to say I got mine fixed but it was a scary 3 hours.
Enjoy!
Brian
regards,
?wolfgang
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Wolfgang Eichberger - OE5EWL
Operating System Collector
Blog: 5ewl.blogspot.com
Homepage: www.eichberger.org
2011/4/13 Brian Wheeler <bdwheele at indiana.edu>:
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 07:07 -0700, steve shumaker wrote:
>> Amazon shows an "Instructors Manual"....
>>
>>
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Introduction-INSTRUCTORS-MANUAL/dp/013…
>>
>>
>
> I took a class based on that book (Prosser himself was the instructor).
> as I recall, there was a lab manual which had the state machine flow
> chart and various other tidbits -- some unrelated to the PDP 8 since the
> 2nd semester of that class we build a M6809 machine running FLEX and the
> project was either to interface a floppy drive or do a project of our
> own design (I built a memory mapper of sorts)
>
> In any case, I may still have the manual around, I'll look for it
> tonight.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
>>
>> On 4/13/2011 1:07 AM, Wolfgang Eichberger wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm currently enjoying to read Prosser and Winkels Book "the art
of
>> > digital design". Currently I'm right into the last sections. Every
now
>> > and then theres a "laboratory manual" referenced which should
contain
>> > more technical stuff about the 2 designs (one is more or less pure ttl
>> > and the other is a microcoded design).
>> >
>> > It would be very interesting to look into this laboratory manuals (I
>> > can look up the correct name of the document, don't have the book
>> > handy at the moment) as the book itself only contains the basic design
>> > ideas and stuff. I'd greatly appreciate any hint where to get this
>> > manuals in print or pdf.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > ? Wolfgang
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Wolfgang Eichberger - OE5EWL
>> > Operating System Collector
>> > Blog: 5ewl.blogspot.com
>> > Homepage: www.eichberger.org
>> >
>> >
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