29 Dec
2020
29 Dec
'20
5:23 p.m.
Hey all --
A straight TI 980 (not one of the later 980A or 980B variants) appeared on
my doorstep this afternoon. While well-shipped, the person I got it from
decided to ship the boards and power supply separately from the chassis --
and unfortunately didn't document where anything goes.
There is precious little information out there about the original 980 --
anyone sitting on any documentation? Anyone know someone who has one?
(Anyone have any spare parts? The core memory boards & chassis are labeled
well enough for me to see that I'm missing one of the "DA" boards...)
Thanks,
Josh
30 Dec
30 Dec
1:51 a.m.
Hi Josh,
maybe this helps
https://pic2.avaluer.org/imgspic/a/r/k/m/r/-vintage_ti_980_ttl_based_minico…
Thomas
Am 30.12.2020 um 01:23 schrieb Josh Dersch via cctalk:
Hey all --
A straight TI 980 (not one of the later 980A or 980B variants) appeared on
my doorstep this afternoon. While well-shipped, the person I got it from
decided to ship the boards and power supply separately from the chassis --
and unfortunately didn't document where anything goes.
There is precious little information out there about the original 980 --
anyone sitting on any documentation? Anyone know someone who has one?
(Anyone have any spare parts? The core memory boards & chassis are labeled
well enough for me to see that I'm missing one of the "DA" boards...)
Thanks,
Josh
11:22 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 1:53 AM osi.superboard via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi Josh,
maybe this helps
https://pic2.avaluer.org/imgspic/a/r/k/m/r/-vintage_ti_980_ttl_based_minico…
Thanks. That looks like a 980B to me. Here's a couple of pictures of what
I have (note that the boards are placed mostly randomly right now, just for
safekeeping):
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aqb36sqnCIfMpJFO9udIaPHKbzS5bg?e=L7RxCk
- Josh
Thomas
Am 30.12.2020 um 01:23 schrieb Josh Dersch via cctalk:
Hey all --
A straight TI 980 (not one of the later 980A or 980B variants) appeared
on
my doorstep this afternoon. While well-shipped,
the person I got it from
decided to ship the boards and power supply separately from the chassis
--
and unfortunately didn't document where
anything goes.
There is precious little information out there about the original 980 --
anyone sitting on any documentation? Anyone know someone who has one?
(Anyone have any spare parts? The core memory boards & chassis are
labeled
well enough for me to see that I'm missing
one of the "DA" boards...)
Thanks,
Josh
2:07 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 8:23 PM Josh Dersch via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
A straight TI 980 (not one of the later 980A or 980B
variants) appeared on
my doorstep this afternoon.
Interesting. Unfortunately, I have no docs (outside of what's on Bitsavers).
Mine is the later 980A variety, FWIW, with fat TI4060 DRAMs not core.
I only recently got a console key for it.
(Anyone have any spare parts? The core memory boards
& chassis are labeled
well enough for me to see that I'm missing one of the "DA" boards...)
The only spare parts would be some memory boards. I'll have to pull
them out and check them, but definitely DRAM and I think 8K or 24K
capacity, and I have no idea if they work on all variants or just
specific models. No spare I/O or CPU boards.
I was just glancing over at the docs on Bitsavers to see what it might
take to write a memory tester to toggle in. Nothing exhaustive just
simple write-read-compare testing. I know nothing of the architecture
so even that would take me a bit to figure out.
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ti/980/
-ethan
10:51 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:07 AM Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 8:23 PM Josh Dersch via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'd be interested to see pictures of the card cages. I know what a 980B
looks like and it's a significant revision from the 980 I have here -- the
CPU is condensed from 13 or 14 boards down to four or so. I haven't been
able to find a picture of the 980A's insides, curious to know how it
differs.
A straight TI 980 (not one of the later 980A or
980B variants) appeared
on
my doorstep this afternoon.
Interesting. Unfortunately, I have no docs (outside of what's on
Bitsavers).
Mine is the later 980A variety, FWIW, with fat TI4060 DRAMs not core.
I only recently got a console key for it.
(Anyone have any spare parts? The core memory
boards & chassis are
labeled
well enough for me to see that I'm missing
one of the "DA" boards...)
The only spare parts would be some memory boards. I'll have to pull
them out and check them, but definitely DRAM and I think 8K or 24K
capacity, and I have no idea if they work on all variants or just
specific models. No spare I/O or CPU boards.
I was just glancing over at the docs on Bitsavers to see what it might
take to write a memory tester to toggle in. Nothing exhaustive just
simple write-read-compare testing. I know nothing of the architecture
so even that would take me a bit to figure out.
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ti/980/
Somewhere I have a couple of very short programs I hand-assembled to test
out my 980B, I'll see if I can't dig them up... I suspect I left them on my
old laptop.
Thanks,
- Josh
-ethan
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