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Namens Josh Dersch
Verzonden: vrijdag 13 september 2013 8:01
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Onderwerp: Re: HP 9830 parts help and Infotek identification
On 9/12/2013 1:05 AM, Rik Bos wrote:
Josh,
If this doesn't work out contact me, I do have some spare boards for
the HP 9830A.
Thanks! I appreciate the help.
You can use the key caps form a HP 264X to
replace lost key caps, if
you need switches I have some cherry switches which can replace the
original with some modification (longer leeds).
That's good to know, thanks. Any idea on the model of the cherry
switches?
I'll look it up and make a picture.
The infotek boards are very rare, so be careful
with them, if you ever
want to get rid of them let me know ;)
That's the gist I've gotten from the research I've done. I may hold
onto them for now :). I think I was misled by the labeling of the photos
I found
on the HP Museum site yesterday. The HP Museum
provides this manual for
the
FP-30/MX-30:
http://www.hpmuseum.net/document.php?hwfile=5741
And the following for the MP-30:
http://www.hpmuseum.net/document.php?hwfile=5368
Based on the FP-30 docs, it's pretty clear that that's what I have in my
machine
(it occupies slots 4 and 5, with the RX-30 ROMs
filling slot 6), while the
MP-30 is
an upgraded controller for the 9880 drives (it looks
like it replaced the
PCB in the
interface that plugged into the rear of the machine).
And perhaps the
MP30
labeling on the EPROMs on the FP-30 boards indicates
that it has added
support
for the MP-30 expansion.
This is not entirely clear from the documentation...
I also have the RC-30 "ROM Clock" which is a real-time clock that fits
into one of
the internal ROM slots.
Can you make some pictures?
Should be great to look at ;)
What I don't have is the special MX-30 memory
board(s). Normal 9830
memory
is incompatible with the FP-30, so without it I'm
not going to get
anywhere. And
I'm guessing these are nigh unobtainable.
This would be a pretty sweet machine, if I could just get it running...
I do have a complete machine in parts and some boards more than once, it's
my spare machine but maybe we can arrange something.
M and T registers and memory I've got more than once, on my Flickr page you
can see some pictures of the 9830 default inner works.
(
ww.flickr.com/hp-fix)
- Josh
-Rik