10 Mar
2008
10 Mar
'08
6:57 p.m.
On Monday 10 March 2008 18:25, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
I found a PDF of the workshop manual for the Casio
FZ-1 sampler online,
and rescued it from what seems to be a rather slow and flaky site.
Why mention it here? Well, the FZ-1 (and indeed the FZ-10m I'm
repairing) are at least 10 years old and probably nearer 20, and are an
example of an 8086-based device that's a) not a PC, and b) is capable of
running user-supplied code.
Tony - you'd probably like the manual. It details what the various
ASICs do pin-by-pin, and even includes about two pages on how dynamic
RAM works and why it's such a good idea.
Even if you're not into weird old musical equipment, it's probably worth
a read.
http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/FZ-1_Service-Manual.pdf - 60M, don't kill
my server.
Well, since we're going there...
I used to work on a lot of that stuff. Closed my shop up back in 1992. At
that time I took a whole mess of manuals to another, nearby shop that we had
a good relationship with, saying something like "You'll probably find some
use for these before I do..." and there they sat. Until recently, when I
heard from the guy who's now running it, and he wants the space back so they
can do some other stuff. So I'm getting them out of there, transportation
permitting (and my car is currently off the road). The results of the first
trip over there can be seen here:
http://mysite.verizon.net/rtellason/manuals.jpg
I've been working up a list of what's there, just typing stuff into a text
file and so far it's up around 50K bytes or so, and I have a good bit of
that material to go yet. Anybody looking for any of that sort of stuff?
Also included in that was a bunch of material that I did not have before,
very old Altec and Bogen stuff for things like installed systems in schools
and similar. I'm told that these are of some interest to guitar players but
I don't play and don't know of any lists where I might mention such stuff,
so if you do either feel free to pass this info along.
There's still a 5-drawer file cabinet over there yet that I have to arrange to
go and get... :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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