intel mds 225

whats in the front card slots http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6826/intel2.jpg

the back end http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7705/intel1c.jpg

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/263/intel3q.jpg

Hi It looks like it might need a little work. The large board attached to the back of the unit is called the IOC board. It is just a terminal board for the keyboard/video. It also has various I/O such as the single density disk controller. It has a 8085 on it as well to run the terminal. It doesn't look like it is working correctly. It will need some trouble shooting. First check the voltages. Just curious, what boards do you have in the UPP. There should be three boards in it. The rear one is the controller and the two towards the from are the personality cards. Dwight > From:tdk.knight at gmail.com > > turned it on and the screen just shows this do i need to adjust the contrast nob in the back > also a load squeel comes from it when powerd on > http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6826/intel2.jpg > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Adrian Stoness<tdk.knight at gmail.com > wrote: > >> yea just the one card with the buttonss on it. >> >> also got drawings for it >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dave Mabry<dmabry at mich.com> wrote: >> >>> Adrian Stoness said the following on 9/21/2011 8:50 PM: >>> >>> this puppy just showed up as a donation from a company thats gone belly up >>> sadly but its now got a home. >>> software manuals drawings even the prom reader righter could be a usefull machean. >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/1ajs/6171038488/in/photostream/lightbox/ >>>> anyone seen one of these befor anything need to be done before attempting to >>>> run it? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I've got several of them. Love those old "blue boxes"! >>> >>> As for anything before running it, probably not. There is a >>> three-position switch on the back panel. One position is diagnostics and will tell the firmware to run some tests. I would do that before trying to boot it, just to see if it finds anything wrong. There can be a few >>> configurations of that hardware. The internal 8" drive can be single >>> density or double density. It depends on what is controlling it. If the ribbon cable to the drive goes to the back plane board (called the IOC >>> board) then the drive will operate in single density mode. If that ribbon cable makes its way to a two-board set in the cardcage, then likely it will operate in double density mode. >>> >>> ISIS-II is the operating system and will have to be in the density that the drive operates in. >>> >>> The standard 225 had a single-density internal drive, but there were >>> options available. Whether the options were installed would not have been reflected in any labeling on the outside, including the model number. The standard cpu on the 225 was a board wtih an 8085 cpu with 64k of ram. That was the only board in the multibus cage, unless options were purchased and installed. >>> >>> Open the cardcage under the monitor and tell me what you see for multibus boards plugged in. With that info I can probably tell you more definitively what you have. >>> >>> Dave >>> >>>