5 Oct
2015
5 Oct
'15
8 a.m.
Hi Simon,
thanks for your email and the link to the pictures - you indeed
have a more modern version of the controller. Maybe, yours is the
later OPC907 and not the 906 I have got. Anyhow the plugs look
quite similar, so it probably is a drop in repelacelemt...
My controller understands a subset ot the PCI/907 commands, but this
did nor hurt me as I am only using the very basic pen up / pen down
and goto commands.
The pictures are all I currently have got (at least until my next
visit at my parent's basement ;-))
I think first step is to make the keypads work and than to look
into the controller of the plotter...
Best regards,
Erik.
On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, simon wrote:
Hey this is interesting. we have a different
controller, indicating that a
change from a 1038 to a 1039 involved changing the controller as well.
see my pics.
https://hack42.nl/gallery/v/Museum/2015-09-18-138.jpg
unfortunately i cannot find a picture of the back of the controller.
simon
On 05-10-15 07:59, Erik Baigar wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> thanks for your email. I took the pictures on the weekend and loaded
> them onto my server - curious, whether you have got the same setup:
>
> http://www.baigar.de/electronics/Calcomp103X/
>
>> than that pictured in the user guide. I took some more picts of the
>> pcb's in the machine. I will post them on our hack42.nl site later today.
>
> Great, I will check for your pictures and compare... I have got
> engineering drawings (i.e. schematics) only for the power supply,
> the logic board (sequencer) and the pen driver. Unfortunately the
> schematics for the OPC (online plotter controller?) are missing,
> i.e. exactly for the interesting PCB with the CPU there are no
> schematics at the moment :-(
>
>> was loose inside the machine, and it seems ours is wired for current
>> loop, looking at the settings decal on the inside of the backplate.
>> How is yours wired?
>
> That looks very crowded as you can see and I do not know whether
> this is representative. I guess mine was used in some form of
> daisy chain setup but at least the levels are RS232. Yes - I have
> been able to plot data on my plotter, but the PCI/906 language
> the OPC uses is quite strange and the RS232 is not that easy as it
> is using hardware handshake and checks for all signals (RTS/CTS
> and DSR/DTR) I think.
>
>> I had to put away the calcomp for the time being as we had a fair
>> yesterday.
>
> Yes, that is quite a heavy machine. Mine is stored at my parent's
> basement, so I only have access to the plotter and the documentation
> once a month...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Erik.
>
