Hi everyone,
we have finally received our first Nova. It was installed in a classroom
at a school where they taught some basics of computer science. They bought
it new in 1978 and used it until 1986. All parts still look like new, no
obvious yellowing or worn fronts. The system consists of the Nova 3/12 and
6050-2 cartridge disk drive in a 19" high-boy cabinet and two terminals, a
Dasher 6042 printing terminal and a Dasher 6052-2 CRT terminal - both have
a very cool design!
Now to my question ;-) The system came with several cartridges
(containing RDOS and BASIC, as far as I can tell), but *no* manuals. I
haven't found any manual for our system components on the net (nothing on
bitsavers, too). Does anyone have scans/images? I would need at least the
Nova 3 printset and diagnostics (e.g. papertape images) in case it needs
repair or maintenance. After all, even if the power supply and CPU seem to
work, I'd like to be sure everything is ok after 26 years. (The former
user, a teacher, didn't even know that you could dismantle the rack, nor
did he ever pull out the CPU or the power cable from the rack...).
Christian
PS:
Repairing the key switches in the terminal keyboards (disintegrated
foam) is another story...