28 May
2009
28 May
'09
11:42 a.m.
After negotiations with the finance committee (aka wife),
I bid on and to my surprise won this lot: 390053617609.
It's a Fluke 9010A for those that don't want to bother
to surf it and I got it for $66.56. That's right, 66
bucks and change. Pictures show it boots. So, now I
have to get pods of interest (anybody have a spare 6502,
8080 or Z80?) and read the manuals. Is there anything
interesting you can do with one without pods?
Thanks,
Bill Sudbrink
28 May
28 May
12:07 p.m.
Nop you can't do a thing without pods and software.
And there is a big change the harddisk is bad (20Mb microscience with sasi
interface)and you need the newest firmware because with that you upgrade to
a scsi harddisk with a max of 350Mb.
Manuals and the latest firmware are somewhere on the web, if you can't find
them contact me off-list and I'll upload them.
I bought one + a Fluke 9005 a few months ago with a lot of pods and
software.
I'll check the pods I own and from witch there are more then one.
These Flukes are very popular with the game console boys.
-Rik
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Van: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Namens Bill Sudbrink
Verzonden: donderdag 28 mei 2009 17:42
Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Onderwerp: An ebay bargain (I hope!)
After negotiations with the finance committee (aka wife), I
bid on and to my surprise won this lot: 390053617609.
It's a Fluke 9010A for those that don't want to bother to
surf it and I got it for $66.56. That's right, 66 bucks and
change. Pictures show it boots. So, now I have to get pods
of interest (anybody have a spare 6502, 8080 or Z80?) and
read the manuals. Is there anything interesting you can do
with one without pods?
Thanks,
Bill Sudbrink
12:18 p.m.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Rik Bos <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> wrote:
Nop you can't do a thing without pods and
software.
And there is a big change the harddisk is bad (20Mb microscience with sasi
interface)and you need the newest firmware because with that you upgrade to
a scsi harddisk with a max of 350Mb.
What hard disk? I've had a 9010A for many years - it has a
micro-cassette tape for loading and saving configs and such, but no
disk.
I bought one + a Fluke 9005 a few months ago with a
lot of pods and
software.
I haven't seen a 9005... does that have a hard disk?
-ethan
1:06 p.m.
Sorry my fault, I was confused I own a Fluke 9100A and a 9105A where the
9100 has the harddisk and the 9105A not.
For those machines I got the pods, docs and the firm- and software files.
I do have somewhere a 9010 logicprobe.
-Rik
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Van: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Namens Ethan Dicks
Verzonden: donderdag 28 mei 2009 18:18
Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Onderwerp: Re: An ebay bargain (I hope!)
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Rik Bos <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> wrote:
Nop you can't do a thing without pods and
software.
And there is a big change the harddisk is bad (20Mb
microscience with
sasi interface)and you need the newest firmware
because
with that you
upgrade to a scsi harddisk with a max of 350Mb.
What hard disk? I've had a 9010A for many years - it has a
micro-cassette tape for loading and saving configs and such,
but no disk.
I bought one + a Fluke 9005 a few months ago with
a lot of pods and
software.
I haven't seen a 9005... does that have a hard disk?
-ethan
29 May
29 May
1:51 a.m.
IN my experience, the 9010's logic probe is a kinda
critical item. When 9010's and related paraphernalia
are surplussed out, the logic probes have this nasty
tendency to vanish.
You can do alot of good testing with a 9010 and a pod for
your target system, but you really won't be able to fix
anything that's broke (besides memory faults) w/o the
probe.
They can get kinda pricey . . . .
-----Original Message-----
From: hp-fix at xs4all.nl
Sent: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:06:19 +0200
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: An ebay bargain (I hope!)
Sorry my fault, I was confused I own a Fluke 9100A and a 9105A where the
9100 has the harddisk and the 9105A not.
For those machines I got the pods, docs and the firm- and software files.
I do have somewhere a 9010 logicprobe.
28 May
28 May
12:33 p.m.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Bill Sudbrink <wh.sudbrink at verizon.net> wrote:
After negotiations with the finance committee (aka
wife),
I bid on and to my surprise won this lot: 390053617609.
It's a Fluke 9010A for those that don't want to bother
to surf it and I got it for $66.56. ?That's right, 66
bucks and change. ?Pictures show it boots. ?So, now I
have to get pods of interest (anybody have a spare 6502,
8080 or Z80?) and read the manuals. ?Is there anything
interesting you can do with one without pods?
I have a 9010A and two pods (68000 and 6502). In my experience,
people buy the pods and get a free 9010A in the box. I would
personally consider finding pods for $50 each to be a great price, but
$75 and up to be a more ordinary price.
You could look over the service manual (PDFs pointed to from
<http://vt100.net/manx/details/59,15572>) and see if there's anything
interesting in there, but there probably isn't much you can do if you
are podless - maybe test internal memory or the tape drive and such.
They are great devices, but the value is in having a pod matched to
your target system. I first used mine with its 68000 pod in 1984 when
it was owned by my employer. It was one of the things I made sure to
rescue when the company closed. It was only a few years ago that
picked up second pod (and I'm pretty sure the seller is/was on this
list). I've been half-heartedly looking for a Z-80 pod for about 3-4
years, but haven't needed one badly enough to spend what it will
probably cost to get one.
When you get a pod, do yourself a favor and get a stack of
machined-pin sockets to match. We broke numerous pins on the sockets,
but never broke a pin on the pod. Typically, we had a stack of 3-4
sockets, both for overhead clearance and for sacrificial pins. We
*never* removed the lower socket from the pod, in part because there
was always at least one more socket below that to take the mechanical
stress of installation/deinstallation several times per day (we used
this Fluke for production testing of every one of our boards before
plugging it into a PDP-11 or VAX).
-ethan
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