I'll bring the virtual beer keg. -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com -- In memory of Greg Morris ---------------------------------------------------

I've never seen one used as a general purpose logic analyzer but they probably did make the proper probes for it. However the 64000 was a complete microcomputer developement system. You could write code on them, save it, edit and change it, compile it, burn it into EPROM and operate the target system using the code from the 64000s memory. There were also emulator pods for just about any common CPU so you could monitor the system activities, set breakpoints, examine and change registers, etc etc etc. As you might expect there were LOTS and LOTs of accessories and peripherals for the 64000. Plus HUGE amounts of software and manuals. I still have a couple of them around but I've been shipping the peripherals, manuals and software to Frank McConnell. A few years ago when I was finding loads of stuff for these, Frank was the only one around that was seriously interested in them. As for using the 64000 as a LA. I wouldn't! It's a dammed monster! It's huge and it's heavy! And I think it's doubtful that you'd get all the SW and peripherals that you'd need anyway and finding the CORRECT parts is going to be very difficult. Yes, I find lots of parts for them but it's always a hodge podge of parts and not enough of any one set that I was able to do anything useful with the 64000. The 64000 would be a great machine for a serious collector. Someone that was willing to get out and find all the original documentation, software and peripherals and build a collection out of it like I have of the Intel MDSs but as a piece of working test equipment I think it would be the pits. Joe PS I should also point out that the 64000 uses those self-melting tape drives similar to the ones on the HP-85, 9825, etc. AND the tapes themselves are very prone to shedding their media and becoming useless. At 11:11 PM 12/3/04 +1300, you wrote: