Hi,
our museum recently got "some" (a dozen) HP 1000 with "some" spare
parts
and "some" tapes. Currently we're building up some of the stuff to get a
running system. For now, I've put a 2100S, a 2117 (1000F), I/O extender,
two 7970B tape drives (one with the 200/556/800 bpi option), one 2748A
tape reader, one HP 8100 tape punch (basically a Facit 4070), a HP130C (?)
rackmount oscilloscope, and a 7905 disk drive with its 13037C controller
into the three racks we have.
Included are the original distribution tapes of RTE-II, RTE-III, RTE-IIIM,
RTE-4, RTE-4b and RTE-6/VM, DS/1000, Signal/1000, Fortran, etc., a huge
pile of paper tapes (original HP), and nearly all paper documents
(manuals, schematics). But some parts are missing, so here are my (first)
questions:
- Does someone have the schematics of the 12555 dual D/A converter card?
They are not on bitsavers yet. We've attached the D/A card to the scope
and ported the PDP-8 kaleidoscope program to the HP2100. There are a lot
of glitches in the analog signals and we want to find out where they
come from (it's not a software bug, all test programs on all D/A cards
we have show the same symptoms).
- My only diagnostic tape (24396-13501 rev. 1926) has read errors in file
7 and in the last files. There is (was) a file in the SIMH package
called hp2100_diag.txt that insinuates that there must be a TAP image of
the 24396-13601 rev. 2040 diagnostics tape. Is there a chance to find it
somewhere? I really need a working diagnostics tape.
Christian