29 Oct
2008
29 Oct
'08
10:46 p.m.
Hi,
I was able to acquire 4 Zilog S8000 boards lately.
- S8000 Central Processing Unit
- S8000 Winchester Disk Controller
- S8000 Cartridge Tape Controller
- S8000 ECC Controller
I'm trying to get my hands on the Case and the 1MB memory card, but I was
wondering if someone has still pieces of the S8000 at hand? What about
tape images of ZEUS? I mean - when I'm getting the minimum required
hardware sooner or later - without an installation tape I'm a bit lost -
right? ;)
I've tried to put all the information I was able to found about the S8000
together at http://pofo.de/S8000/ I've scanned the boards I got and put
all the EPROM images online.
COPYRIGHT, ZILOG, INC. 1980
S8000 Monitor 1.2 - Press START to Load System
;)
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Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
31 Oct
31 Oct
1:43 p.m.
So - none has a S8000... at home? ;)
I'm missing a backplane so I tried at first hooking up power on my CPU
module and connecting a serial interface to the tty1 (console) pins of
the bus-connector.... powering on the system makes the cpu getting a bit
warm but my console is quiet :( I'm not sure if I've to connect some
other pins as well with +5V or GND. NMI... RESET whatever... so I
wonder if someone has a S8000 at hand and can measure some things?
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Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
7:01 p.m.
I have a card set and backplane saved from a machine that went to
scrap, nothing else. It is lost in my container.
Pax
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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA
1 Nov
1 Nov
5:32 a.m.
So - none has a S8000... at home? ;)
I'm missing a backplane so I tried at first hooking up power on my CPU
module and connecting a serial interface to the tty1 (console) pins of
the bus-connector.... powering on the system makes the cpu getting a bit
warm but my console is quiet :( I'm not sure if I've to connect some
other pins as well with +5V or GND. NMI... RESET whatever... so I
wonder if someone has a S8000 at hand and can measure some things?
Old computers with serial port? Take a look at the 1488 and 1489 chips,
they have to be supplied with +12 and -12 tensions. Don't forget old RAM
memories who uses -5 volts...
7:07 a.m.
Alexandre Souza wrote:
Old computers with serial port? Take a look at the
1488 and 1489 chips,
they have to be supplied with +12 and -12 tensions. Don't forget old RAM
memories who uses -5 volts...
I'v +12 and -12V connected, but I doubt the Z80-SIOs are using this voltage.
RAMs are 2114 4K S-RAM - so no -5V...
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Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
11:36 a.m.
On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
So - none has a S8000... at home? ;)
I had one at home in 1988 or so. I miss it terribly. I know of
someone who has one (or at least, he did a few years ago) and was
looking to part with it, but I've been having trouble contacting
him. Perhaps someday. What neat systems they are.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
3 Nov
3 Nov
8:28 a.m.
Paxton Hoag wrote:
I have a card set and backplane saved from a machine
that went to
scrap, nothing else. It is lost in my container.
Are you willing to dig it up and sell it? If you mind shipping it to .de
- I might have a contact at hand in the states where it could be shipped
to.
Grettings, Oliver
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Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
9:31 a.m.
I have a card
set and backplane saved from a machine that went to
scrap, nothing else. It is lost in my container.
Are you willing to dig it up and sell it? If you mind shipping it to .de
- I might have a contact at hand in the states where it could be shipped
to.
7 Nov
7 Nov
10:43 p.m.
Hi once more....
I got the case of the system now but it is in a bad condition.... looks
I've much work to do restoring it...
Unfortunally the power supplies are broken and no LOCK/START/RESET panel :(
RAM-Board, Inst.Tape, Tape-Drive and hdd still missing..... :(
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Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
10:45 p.m.
Oliver Lehmann wrote:
I got the case of the system now but it is in a bad
condition.... looks
I've much work to do restoring it...
http://www.pofo.de/S8000/pictures/case/
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Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
8 Nov
8 Nov
2:04 a.m.
I got the case
of the system now but it is in a bad condition.... looks
I've much work to do restoring it...
http://www.pofo.de/S8000/pictures/case/
12:46 p.m.
Alexandre Souza wrote:
Little sugestion:
Why not create a thumbnail page? There are automatic thumbnail
generators, which build a page for you...
Yeah I know some... I'm just too lazy ;)
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Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
9 Nov
9 Nov
2:23 a.m.
better? ;)
http://pics.pofo.de/gallery/S8000
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Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
26 Mar
26 Mar
12:55 p.m.
Hi Paxton,
I would be willing to part with it but finding it in the container is
much more difficult. It will probably be next spring before I could
dig that deep into into the container to find it.
Unless I could find a space in Astoria for a computer museum.
That way I could unpack the container.
Paxton
Ha! It is spring now ;)
Did you find time until now to look up the System 8000 boards?
--
Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/
http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
I have a card set and backplane saved from a machine
that went to
scrap, nothing else. It is lost in my container.
Are you willing to dig it up and sell it? If you mind shipping it to .de
- I might have a contact at hand in the states where it could be shipped
to.
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