... I've never seen one of those mds computers before, but as soon as I saw it I
realized that it is what the Speech Plus/Telesensory Prose 2000 Speech Synth card which I
have was originally meant for/designed for.
The card I have is in a special speech plus 'prose 2020' metal case with its own
power supply, and the two 'multibus'? edge connectors of the card are unused,
power and serial and audio come from/go to special secondary connectors on the board.
But clearly, without the special prose 2020 case, the prose 2000 card would be used in one
of those computers with 'multibus'.
Any chance you can dump the roms from the computer? Given that there don't appear to
be any multibus cards installed, are there even any roms to dump?
Adrian Stoness<tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:54 PM, dwight elvey<dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi
It looks like it might need a little work.
The large board attached to the back of the unit
is called the IOC board. It is just a terminal board for the
keyboard/video. It also has various I/O such as the
single density disk controller. It has a 8085 on it
as well to run the terminal.
It doesn't look like it is working correctly.
It will need some trouble shooting.
First check the voltages.
Just curious, what boards do you have in
the UPP. There should be three boards in it.
The rear one is the controller and the two towards
the from are the personality cards.
Dwight
> From:tdk.knight at
gmail.com
>
> turned it on and the screen just shows this do i need to adjust the contrast nob in
the back
> also a load squeel comes from it when powerd on
>
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6826/intel2.jpg
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Adrian Stoness<tdk.knight at
gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> yea just the one card with the buttonss on it.
>>
>> also got drawings for it
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dave Mabry<dmabry at mich.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Adrian Stoness said the following on 9/21/2011 8:50 PM:
>>>
>>> this puppy just showed up as a donation from a company thats gone belly up
>>> sadly but its now got a home.
>>> software manuals drawings even the prom reader righter could be a usefull
machean.
>>>
>>>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1ajs/6171038488/in/photostream/lightbox/
>>>> anyone seen one of these befor anything need to be done before attempting
to
>>>> run it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I've got several of them. Love those old "blue boxes"!
>>>
>>> As for anything before running it, probably not. There is a
>>> three-position switch on the back panel. One position is diagnostics and will
tell the firmware to run some tests. I would do that before trying to boot it, just to see
if it finds anything wrong. There can be a few
>>> configurations of that hardware. The internal 8" drive can be single
>>> density or double density. It depends on what is controlling it. If the
ribbon cable to the drive goes to the back plane board (called the IOC
>>> board) then the drive will operate in single density mode. If that ribbon
cable makes its way to a two-board set in the cardcage, then likely it will operate in
double density mode.
>>>
>>> ISIS-II is the operating system and will have to be in the density that the
drive operates in.
>>>
>>> The standard 225 had a single-density internal drive, but there were
>>> options available. Whether the options were installed would not have been
reflected in any labeling on the outside, including the model number. The standard cpu on
the 225 was a board wtih an 8085 cpu with 64k of ram. That was the only board in the
multibus cage, unless options were purchased and installed.
>>>
>>> Open the cardcage under the monitor and tell me what you see for multibus
boards plugged in. With that info I can probably tell you more definitively what you
have.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
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