11 Mar
2009
11 Mar
'09
9:49 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Josh Dersch wrote:
Front:
DCPC slot - D.C.P.C board
111 - Memory Protect
112 - M.E.M.
.
.
.
121 - 64K HSM
122 - 64K HSM
123 - MEM CNTLR (cabled to 122 & 121 on left-side connector via
ribbon cable)
This isn't much memory.
Rear:
10 - F.E.M.
12 - BACI
14 - BUS I/O
I'd put the BACI into slot 11 and the Bus I/O into 12 (avoid empty
slots between cards). You need an HP terminal (e.g. a 2648A with
cartridges) or an emulation which provides the fast binary load feature in
order to boot from the terminal as you don't have anything else to boot
from. And I recommend a TBG (time base generator).
The 1000E (2113E) is empty aside from the power-supply
& mainboard and a
single F.E.M. card in slot 10. The F.E.M. is cabled to the main board via a
ribbon cable (this ribbon cable is not present on the 1000F). I assume this
machine isn't going to do much as it is.
Right, this machine would do nothing.
My understanding is that the F-series has some kind of
floating-point
support, but it's also my understanding that such support was provided via an
external expansion, which I do not have. Since I don't have this expansion,
will the 1000F work at all, or should I move the cards I have to the E?
(Minus the F.E.M., I assume...)
An F-series without FPP (floating-point processor) acts like an E-series.
I guess that the microcode ROMs are on the FEM. BTW the FPP is connected
to the front panel with a ribbon cable.
I probably won't have time to play with this right
away, but I'm curious to
know what else I'll need to get one of these machines going...
You could start getting more memory and a disk drive with controller (e.g.
a 7905 with 13037 MAC controller, or a CS/80 HP-IB drive with the 12821
interface), as well as an HP terminal. Then you could play with RTE.
Christian