29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
7:52 a.m.
The interface has a 15 pin male adapter, with
8 pins on top and 7 on bottom.
I have added a link to the schematics at the bottom of
the HP7202A Plotter page on my web site.
Go to:
http://www.woffordwitch.com/HP7202A.asp
and click on the link at the bottom of the page.
Can someone help me understand these old HP schematics?
I see the 15 adapter pins shown at the top right of the
page, and see where one of the pins (# 5) appears to go
to something labeled EIA IN on the "Logic Mother Board"
section. Some pins (3, 4, and 6) appear to not be
connected to anything. Most of the others seem to go
to the Analog Mother Board, but I am not sure how to
follow them from there. What would be nice is if I
could get enough of an understanding from this schematic
to figure out how to construct both a 20mA adapter and
an EIA (RS232) adapter, or an adapter that has the 15
pin connector on one end, and two connectors on the
other end (one for 20mA and one for EIA).
Thanks,
Ashley
http://www.woffordwitch.com
29 Jun
29 Jun
8:19 a.m.
From: "Ashley Carder"
I can't see them. I get "The page cannot be found".
Vince
http://www.woffordwitch.com/HP7202A.asp
and click on the link at the bottom of the page.
Can someone help me understand these old HP schematics? 
10:16 a.m.
Ashley Carder wrote:
I can see the schematic for the module interconnect page now (I got "page not
found" earlier as well), but all that that shows is what you describe above.
We would need to see the schematics for the analog board (and) the logic
board. I suppose it may get rather voluminous..
The interface has a 15 pin male adapter, with
8 pins on top and 7 on bottom.
I have added a link to the schematics at the bottom of
the HP7202A Plotter page on my web site.
Go to:
http://www.woffordwitch.com/HP7202A.asp
and click on the link at the bottom of the page.
Can someone help me understand these old HP schematics?
I see the 15 adapter pins shown at the top right of the
page, and see where one of the pins (# 5) appears to go
to something labeled EIA IN on the "Logic Mother Board"
section. Some pins (3, 4, and 6) appear to not be
connected to anything. Most of the others seem to go
to the Analog Mother Board, but I am not sure how to
follow them from there. What would be nice is if I
could get enough of an understanding from this schematic
to figure out how to construct both a 20mA adapter and
an EIA (RS232) adapter, or an adapter that has the 15
pin connector on one end, and two connectors on the
other end (one for 20mA and one for EIA). 
4:14 p.m.
Can someone help me understand these old HP schematics?
I see the 15 adapter pins shown at the top right of the
page, and see where one of the pins (# 5) appears to go
to something labeled EIA IN on the "Logic Mother Board"
FWIW, 'EIA' was commonly used at that time (particularly by HP) to mean
what we'd normally call 'RS232;
section. Some pins (3, 4, and 6) appear to not be
connected to anything. Most of the others seem to go
to the Analog Mother Board, but I am not sure how to
follow them from there. What would be nice is if I
Given the one sheet of schemaatic that I've seen, you can't. You need
detailed schematics of the motherboards to trace the signals to pins on
the plugin cards (I assuem) and then scheamtics of the approprtiate cards
to see where they go in the 'real' electronics.
Do you have that information?
-tony
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