On 1/8/2013 3:02 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org
<mailto:aek at bitsavers.org>> wrote:
On 1/7/13 10:55 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
(*stillneed a Command/Language ROS board since it turns out my
5120 had not one but two bad ROS boards
Apparently, failing ROS boards are quite common in the 51xx series.
It would be a good thing to get the contents of working ones archived.
That's been my experience thus far...
It looks like Christian Corti's worked out how to do this, but I don't
know if he's made the archives public:
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev/ibm_5110/technik/en/i…
The 5120 ROS is identical to the 5110 as far as I know. I don't know
how applicable the above is to the 5100, I assume it's a bit different
(and I don't have one to try it out on).
It'd be nice to know what chips correspond to what portions of the ROS
tests -- I have two bad Command/Language ROS boards from the two 5120s
I have and they fail diagnostics in different places. I'm sure I
could make one working board from the two if I knew which chips were
bad on each one.
It'd also be fun to find some software for this, but I haven't tracked
any down.
- Josh
As a follow-up to my own mail, the emulator download contains the ROS
images (including APL), as well as a disk image for the Customer Support
Functions disk, which I've been looking for and which is incredibly
useful as it's the only way to format new disks on the 5110/5120...
So, a big thanks to Christian for taking care of this already, at least
for the 5110/5120.
- Josh