17 Jun
2021
17 Jun
'21
1:10 p.m.
To provide an update on the repairs so far, I've been able to save a few
boards while others are waiting for parts.
I was able to save a display card (I have two bad ones and one is waiting
for parts) and an APL ROS card which is really great. All by replacing
some bad TTL logic chips. I still have more work to do.
I also have two bad keyboards. It is the actual keyboard assembly as a
known working keyboard works fine. I have taken them apart and cleaned
them as best I could but that didn't help. One has exactly one key that
works (a slash key on the number pad) but no other keys register. The
second keyboard doesn't register anything. I am measuring this from the
keyboard connector on the keyboard mechanism. One of the 5110's I acquired
had a full set of manuals but they were water damaged and the schematics
manual was one solid block of paper with all pages stuck
together, unfortunately. I could really use some schematics.
Does anyone have any schematics for the 5100/5110 they can share? There
are some schematics in the 5100 Maintenance Information Manual on Bitsavers
but they are more logical diagrams than actual schematics. What I don't
know is if my "block of schematics" was like this as well.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Santo
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 12:25 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 6/12/21 1:58 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jun 2021, Tony Duell wrote:
I do stroke my sevens just for clarity. However, here in the US, few
people write their ones with a serif--just a single vertical stroke.
That, in my experience is not common practice in many European countries.
Writing zero with a slash, by the same token, probably leaves the
Scandanavian readers puzzled--as "oh" stroked is a letter of the
alphabet. Regardless, I stroked mine--a more universal practice might
have been to write zero with a horizontal or vertical stroke.
I recall turning in keypunch forms to be punched and receiving my job
back with a note saying "I didn't know if you meant zero or oh, so a did
some of both". Wastebasket meet card deck.
After that, I pretty much did all my own keypunching; management didn't
like that, but I persisted.
--Chuck
I wonder if in the original list, a '1'
was misread as a '7' or vice
versa. I am told that in some countries the '7' is conventionally
written with a crossbar across the downstroke to avoid this. My father
always did this, for all it is not common in England.
In Germany, we *always* write a bar across the 7. I don't like uncrossed
sevens because they are ugly ;-) and hard to distinguish from a 1.