IBM 6360 - interface help?

Anders Nelson anders.k.nelson at gmail.com
Sat Apr 20 17:47:54 CDT 2019


Hi again,

Is there anyone within ~100 miles of the NYC area with a working IBM
Displaywriter? I haven't found any more info on the signaling that goes
over the DB37 data cable, and I would like to use my portable logic
analyzer to sniff out some basics:

   - Boot
   - File Read
   - File Write

Any leads would be appreciated!
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Anders Nelson

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On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 6:03 PM Anders Nelson <anders.k.nelson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Al,
>
> I haven't looked at the MAME stuff but if it uses an NEC 765 then it
> probably won't be the same. The signal list is quite a bit different, e.g.
> only 5 non-contiguous address bits are used. Real weird.
>
> I'll take a look all the same.
>
> =]
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 4:30 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 3/31/19 12:42 PM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> > I've read through the service manuals and other docs on Bitsavers but I
>> > can't seem to find a deeper explanation on the protocol that runs over
>> the
>> > DB-37 cable.
>>
>> Have you looked at the displaywriter MAME driver?
>>
>> The floppy uses an NEC 765 disk controller
>>
>>
>>
>>


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