hello all,
yesterday my wife and I emptied our garage(25 years of diverse things
stocked inside).I found again my hp1000,I saw a vax8200,a a lot of things
that suddenly made me rich :-))etc...and I
found something I had totally forgotten ,bought a long time ago as a part of
lot bought at the near army base:a Tektronix microprocessor emulation
system,made of two (big!!!) racks a 8510 and a 8310.I opened them just to
see ,and immediately I saw the two purple dec handles in the 8510....
A lsi 11/2 was here.I brought the rack inside ,removed the dust and spiders,
connected to the terminal line labeled 'auxilliary' a VT320 and powered it
up,after a few tests,I found the correct speed (2400 bauds) and got the odt,
using the run/halt switch of the front panel.
I has 32k of ram,the console is at correct place,but the fdc is not at
177170,so I doubt it can boot standart rt11.Unfortunately I found an error
in the memory:bit 9 of the first 16k bank is stucked to 1,it may be only a
ram chip (4116)to change,the 2nd bank is correct,a few test programs were
ok.
So if you see such a machine it can be useful.
I'd like to find maintenance informations about the Tektronix boards.
I'try to repair the mem board,and will continue to play with it.
Best regards to all.
Alain Nierveze
492 all?e Montesquieu
33290 Le Pian Medoc
France
nierveze at
radio-astronomie.com
www.radio-astronomie.com