9 Nov
2012
9 Nov
'12
7:23 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Eric Smith <eric
at brouhaha.com> wrote:
I found one of the boards tonight... It's really hard to read the
hand-written scrawl on the label, but it certainly _could_ be 1061.
The board has several DB25s on one edge, a prominent pair of 9114
SRAMs, what looks like a ROM in one corner (if 8316 is a part number
for a 2K masked-programmed ROM), and I think it attaches to the video
circuit with a two-row 0.1" ribbon cable of about 20 pins. There are
a pair of side-toggle dip-switches on one edge for what looks like
configuration settings.
I did a bit of googling for the Teleray 1061 and about all I found out
is that it was released in 1978 for around $1100 and there are some
quirks with it enough to get mentioned in termcap comments. I did not
find schematics or a proper manual.
When I got it, I didn't know what it was and I got it for the socketed
parts. If anyone is trying to fix a Teleray 1061, this could be your
lucky day. The chips on it are worth a few dollars to me as spares
but not a vast amount. I already have more dumb terminals that I
could ever use, so I see no reason why I'd ever try to turn this board
into a working terminal. If someone wants it, contact me off-list,
otherwise, it'll stay in the parts bin for now.
-ethan
Richard wrote:
I wrote about Teleray terminals:
> I'm not sure which model, but it was reportedly 6502-based, and had some
> kind of hacked firmware installed.
Are there any photos of the PCBs out there? I have a small box of
what appear to be 6502-based terminal boards with lots of socketed
TTL. I do not know the vendor, but I can look for distinctive
markings. I never had the terminals. I just picked up a box of
"random" boards from a Hamfest some time ago.