So, just a quick follow up on this -- the MMI 6300s arrived last week
and I finally had time this evening to put them to use. I transcribed
the data for the faulty A11A2 and A20A2 PROMs (ALU control plus a few
other bits) from the engineering drawings, had my wife double-check my
work (she's very patient with me :)) wrote a quick tool to turn my
transcriptions into binaries and used my Data I/O 29A to burn those
binaries onto the PROMs.
I'd previously installed sockets for the PROMs I'd pulled, so I
installed the new PROMs in the sockets, and fired the 11/05 up, and...
it was behaving completely incomprehensibly. Doing anything from the
front panel sent the machine off into the weeds.
Drat.
After futzing around for awhile, I took a closer look at the schematic
(Page 91 in the PDF on bitsavers if you're following along at home).
Let's see... the address lines for the A20A2 PROMs are labeled "CONF ROM
ADRS 00 (1) H" and the address lines for the A11A2 are... "CONF ROM ADRS
00 (1) *L*." So my A11A2's contents are backwards because the address
lines for that PROM are active low. Why? Good question. To make my
life miserable, I suppose.
Burned a new A11A2 with the data in reverse order and hey, Exam and
Deposit work correctly! Simple programs also seem to be running
correctly but I'm guessing that I'm not out of the woods yet. At any
rate it's now rather late and so more vigorous testing will commence
tomorrow...
Thanks all for the tips,
Josh
On 8/22/2014 4:57 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, they make
debugging of the machine actually possible to
accomplish. The 11/05 manuals are very thorough, I'm finding them very
easy to follow.
Agreed. DEC manuals of this vintageare very clear and complete. I
learnt a
lot from the PDP11/45 and PDP8/e manuals sets.
-tony