23 May
2009
23 May
'09
12:08 a.m.
On May 22, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Charles H Dickman wrote:
Wow, problems that fix themselves! ;) Yeah, they're old enough
that things can be pretty flaky. Mine is doing something strange
with one of the motors...it won't turn in one direction. That seems
odd to me because I was pretty sure that the motor drivers were
shared between the two transports. I've not looked at it for a
while, but I will soon.
Mmmm, TU56,
one of my favorite devices. It makes me feel really
old when I think that I've had mine for 24 years now; I got it
when I was 16. Its left transport has become flaky; I'll be
digging into that soon. Even with a TD8E they're really sweet
drives. I'd love to find a TC08 someday.
Interesting, the right transport of my TU56 was acting up last
week. I originally thought it was the dual voltage controller, but
it was OK on the bench. After trying a couple of times it magically
began to work. There was either a bad solder joint or it was a bad
connector. After that I went through the adjustments and got rid of
all the tape slap on the left drive. I had gotten used to using the
right drive because the tape slap on the left was so bad. So what can you do with a TC08 that you can't do
with a TD8e? I
would like to have a TC08 also, but with OS/8 it does not gain me
much function. Or does it?
I'm fuzzy on the specifics, but the TC08 is much smarter than the
TD8E, so the OS/8 driver is much shorter. I *think* (and this is
from 25-year-old memory, so someone please correct me
if I'm wrong)
that OS/8 can run in 8kw if you have a TC08, but requires 12kw
(or
8kw plus the ROM board) if you have a TD8E.
I would like to get an RTS/8 system running. I have
several digital
I/O boards and would like to have some analog too, but I haven't
come up with a system to control.
That sounds like just too much fun!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL