MTR-90 is in the ROM on the 89's CPU board. My
MTR-90 manual indicates
Wayne, oh yeah, that I know. But there seem to be several revisions at
work. I have two (currently dead) '89s that both have part number 444-62 at
U518, which I understand from another enthusiast is MTR-89, and will not
support the H-37 controller (or at least, it will not boot from it). My
working machine, however, has 444-142, which is apparently MTR-90 and OK for
that controller. I've also been warned by this person that I can burn my
own copies of 444-142 for those other machines, but I have to watch the
voltage settings (jumpers) for the EPROM socket *very* carefully.
They're all short so let me know what
you need.
Thanks for the jumper positions, that's a huge help. I'll contact you
off-list regarding the docs. A further question if you know: the H-17 seems
to require the right-most "slot" on the CPU board (different signals from
the other two). The serial card is in the middle slot, so I assume the H-37
can go into the left slot? Also, my H-37 card has a ribbon cable coming off
at "P5" on the board and terminating in a DIP header, which I assume
connects to the CPU board, but where, and does something else get pulled to
make room for it (like the 64K memory expansion hack)?
The controller manual says that you need either HDOS
version
2.0 (with update HOS-5-UP) or CP/M version 2.2.03 or higher.
I have HDOS 2.0, but I'll have to scrounge to see if I have that update.
Thanks (very much) to Don Maslin, I have a CP/M, will need to check the
version.
Thanks for the assist!
Patrick