14 Dec
2006
14 Dec
'06
1:57 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Jay West wrote:
Many issues...
No bids yet.
And hopefully there won't be... unless you want parts - cause it's got
issues. 1) The power supply for the cpu has been pulled (ie.
is not present). That
doesn't bode well ;)
And you can't just fit in a standard PC power supply...
2) The DCPC card (that's DMA to you and me)
appears to be missing and the
cable is dangling. This was standard on the 2117 (1000F aka 21MX/F) I think.
Yes, it was standard and it's missing.
3) There is NO memory, nor a memory controller in the
box, they appear to
have been snagged.
No memory, no memory controller, nothing...
4) Either the FEM board has been pulled, or they just
used the wrong cable to
connect the FAB to the cpu board. Given that slot 10 is empty and thus
creates a break in the interrupt chain, I'm guessing the former. That means
you're likely missing microcode. Could just be vendor microcode... or your
base instruction set ;)
Of the three 1000F I have all have their firmware in slot 10 on a FAB
because the mainboard simply doesn't have enough sockets for all the ROMs.
5) There appears to be something homebrew on the TBG
board in slot 11. At
least it's nothing I've ever seen. Given the RPL markings on the front this
tends to make me think of process control. Maybe the cable was to allow some
other device to generate the time based interrupts.
Doesn't hurt.
8) Note the 8 channel mux card is not compatible with
TSB. Note also the
non-standard edge card connection. PSI board?
All 8 channel muxes have these edge card connections.
9) 7970 tape controller set, handy to have.
Not sure whether it's the controller for the 7970B or 7970E.
10) Two microcircuit boards. I happen to REALLY like
these. If anyone buys
this sytem, I'd be willing to pay for one or two of these cards :)
These are simple digital I/O boards. But thanks to DCPC any board supports
DMA :-)
12) Don't recognize the board in slot 23.
Same as in slot 13.
On the plus side, it IS an F series... the FP unit is
auctioned separately
Well, it isn't an F series. An F series consists of the proper firmware
ROMs (SIS, VIS, FFP, FPP) and the external FP processor, but everything's
missing. You could plug in the firmware from an E series, and then it's a
1000E.
My machine here also has the RTE6 and SIGNAL/1000 firmware ROMs.
I am not familiar enough with the F series to know if
that FP unit includes
all the necessary boards and/or connectors.
I think it's complete, but the cables are missing (especially the
connection from the FPP to the MPP on the CPU front panel).
Christian