21 Jan
2009
21 Jan
'09
9:45 p.m.
Hi, All,
I was one of the ones lucky enough to get one of the DEC Computer Labs
on ePay last month. Mine finally showed up, and after a quick
inspection, I'm ready to make some cables and hook up some circuits.
Somewhere, I do have the teacher's manual. It was given to me nearly
30 years ago, a thoughtful gift from my step-dad's mother who was the
local high school chem teacher. I haven't seen my copy in years, and
I'm worried it was one of the things I lost in a basement flood in the
1980s. I did a google search and a look through bitsavers and didn't
see anything to download, but I did see that this topic has come up on
the list before. There was a call for scanning the docs some time
back (6 years ago?) but no posting of where said scans might be.
Also, there are Phillip's pictures of the cables on grid paper, so
they look like pretty ordinary crimp pins, but I'm having to guess at
the nominal diameter... 3mm? From the cover of the student manual, it
looks like there are 25-ish of the shortest (brown) jumpers, and fewer
of each longer length, but if anyone has a documented count of the
number of each length of jumper wire, that'd be really nice to know.
So are there scans of the student and teacher's manuals for the
Computer Lab anywhere, and does anyone have a list (including in one
of the manuals) of the normal inventory of jumper leads?
Oh... one more thing... does anyone have any idea which bi-pin bulbs
DEC used on this? I didn 't tear mine apart far enough tonight to get
bulb details.
Thanks,
-ethan