16 May
2018
16 May
'18
4:08 a.m.
From: Josh Dersch
the TU56 lacks the G888 flip-chips necessary to work
with the TD8E; I
know these parts are in short supply, but in the unlikely event that
anyone has (a) a set of 5 G888 boards,
I have this memory that someone in Scandanavia is well along with the process
of creating new G888's. (If I should not have let that cat out of the bag,
my apologies.)
Noel
16 May
16 May
5:50 a.m.
2018-05-16 13:08 GMT+02:00 Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>:
I can jump in here since I have been a bit involved in this. Anders (
http://www.pdp-9.net/) designed a modern replacement for the G888. I tested
it in my TC11 + TU56 and it mostly worked fine, except for in the far end
of the tape where it performed worse than an original G888. It worked fine
for booting RT-11 and XXDP but when you run the TC11 diagnostics it will
give some errors while the original is error free.
Anders is in the process of setting up a TU56 together with a TD8E right
now to continue with this work to design a new card.
I think all this is quite official since Anders has posted this thread on
vcfed.org:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63589-DEC-power-supply-725-going-…
/Mattis
From: Josh
Dersch
the TU56 lacks the G888 flip-chips necessary to
work with the TD8E; I
know these parts are in short supply, but in the unlikely event that
anyone has (a) a set of 5 G888 boards,
I have this memory that someone in Scandanavia is well along with the
process
of creating new G888's. (If I should not have let that cat out of the bag,
my apologies.)
Noel
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