Hi,
we got a Zilog S8000 this weekend. The system is really nice and in good
shape. Thanks to Oliver Lehmann, there's a bit of documentation for this
system (seems to be very rare nowadays). Our system had several errors
during bring up diagnostics that were caused by bad contacts in several IC
sockets (could be cured by pulling out all socketed ICs and reinserting
them). But there's one error left, and alas, our system is a Model 32 that
is a bit newer than the Model 31/31plus, the CPU board is different and
the error number is not in the hardware reference manual. The system also
doesn't boot successfully from the SMD disk, it is able to load the
primary bootstrap, but trying to load the secondary bootstrap immediatly
returns an error.
Here's what comes out on the terminal:
System 8000 HPCPU Monitor 10.1 - Press START to Load System
MONITOR POWER UP DIAGNOS
*** ERROR #0402 <03> 3600 3600 5555
TICS
ACTIVE PERIPHERALS:
SMC
TCC
SSB0
COMPLETE
MAXSEG=<3F>
stand/boot
*** SMC ERROR
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Question: What is error 0402 ? Did in the meantime more documents or even
tapes (ZEUS, SADIE) show up?
Some first pictures can be found here:
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pics/s8000/
Christian