25 Nov
2006
25 Nov
'06
5:01 a.m.
On Saturday 25 November 2006 05:54, you wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
Oh...ahhh...before my time, I guess. I must have missed that 'show'.
J
One of the boards (SMS le interface) looks like an interface to a
disk controller. SMS made a dual disk system that had a 8" floppy
and an 8" hard disk in a 3RU cabinet. The system has a controller
in it that connected to the host via a 40 pin ribbon cable.
I think the "le interface" is the host end of that connection... I still
have one of the disk cabinets and controller. (somewhere)
I'd never seen the bus interface till now. I wouldn't mind working out
a trade...
joe lang
On Nov 22, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Charles H. Dickman
wrote:
> I also have DT2769, DT3371 and DT3382 boards without documentation.
> I emailed Data Translation for any support information and they
> didn't have any "at hand", but would get me copies from their
> archives for a service charge of US$50 or something. Since I didn't
> really have any use for them, whatever they were, I passed.
>
> The DT2769 is a KWV11-C Programmable Real-Time Clock. If you look
> in the Micro/PDP-11 Handbook page 214, the boards are essentially
> identical.
Yes, I had noticed that they are very, very similar. In fact the system
(see more below) that contains all of these DT boards, also contains
a real KWV11. Why the system needs both is also a mystery to me...
> The analog hybrid (?) block on the DT3382 is
the same as that on
> the ADV11. The DC006 and DC010 chips indicate that it does DMA.
>
> Never figured out the DT3371 either. It has two analog outputs
> though. :-) It also does DMA (DC006 and DC010 again).
You both may be interested in having a look at the system that these
boards all came in. It is a Data Translations LAB DATAX box with an
H9275A backplane and, by the time I got it, an LSI-11/2 CPU.
The front panel is really also the rear panel. There is a DLV11-J with
four serial lines brougth to 9-pin D connectors, and some BNC-type
connectors for signals in and out from the box. What kind of software
goes with it I don't know, but I do see the system auto-booting to some
roms on the DT3382-8DI board (I think) and I wonder if just starts
processing when powered up. Don't know for sure. There is a label
on the underside of the top cover that I believe represents the original
configuration when it came out of DT:
1- KDF11 & KEF11AA | D4 Interface
2- DLV-11-J (177560) | 256KB Memory
3- LDT3382-DI (771420) ->
4- LDT2768 (167770) | LDT3371 (771140 / 420)
5- LDT2769 (170420) | (empty)
6- (empty) | (empty)
7- (empty) | (empty)
8- (empty) | (empty)
9- KPV-11-A (177546) | (empty)
I have no idea what the 'D4 Interface' is. It's no longer in the box.
I've added a couple of images of the box to my Mystery Boards
webpage:
http://www.rogerwilco.org/mystery_boards/#DATAX
I'd not mind getting my grubby paws on
those Data Translation
boards if you or J want to unload them, maybe some swappage or
something. I do lots of related hacking and would likely pop for the
$50 for the docs before too long so they can be used. (and get them
to Al of course)
Thanks for the interest. For now, though, I think I'll hang on to this DT
gear since it looks to be a 'system'. Perhaps I should spring for the
$50 doc set. How long ago did you make your inquiry to DT?
Didn't Data Translation always have the company presidents face in
every advertisement? I can see the face, but don't remember the
name... [Google for it] Fred Molinari.
He was rather hilarious in many of their ads...that always gave me
a laugh.