Looking for DEC RA80 (or RM80, R80) service manual (EK-ORA80-SV or similar)

[Paul Anderson]

I have RA60 prints, with notes,
RA81 Maint Guide AA-M879B-TC
RA80 MG               AA-M186B-TC
RM80 POCKET SERV GUIDE  EK-0RM80-PG-001
RA81 Field Maint print set  MP-01359?

I also have prints and or manuals for RP04/5/6
RK611, RK06/07

TUxx

and parts for mass bus devices which I will never use.  I have no problem
selling heads
 and other parts, but not sure on documentation yet. If i do sell them, the
buyer must
agree to scan and send copies to Al.

I still want to sell off all my q-bus- about 10-15 boxes, and maybe 600 or
more boards.
 All Vax is going. I also have several 8-E boxes, and some boards.
also 100 or so non- DEC boards such as Able, CMD, Dilog, Emulex, ETC.

Paul

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:41 AM Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:

> I pulled some RA60, R80, R81, etc. prints and manuals earlier, but left
> them in the basement when I came upstairs.I will bring them up tomorrow
> and put out a list.
>
> Thanks, Paul
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 5:47 PM Josh Dersch via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 1:45 PM Antonio Carlini via cctalk <
>> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On 18/10/2019 05:51, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
>> > >
>> > > (I should also note that there is an R80 service manual on Bitsavers
>> -- I
>> > > misspoke (mistyped?) in my initial e-mail.  It doesn't provide a lot
>> of
>> > > details on the drive's operation and I was hoping the RA80 or RM80
>> > manuals
>> > > might be more detailed...)
>> >
>> > I'm guessing you mean AA-M186B-TC "RA80 Maintenance Guide", but if not,
>> > that's there.
>> >
>> > (Assuming I've not mis-typed something, I seem to have a later version,
>> > AA-M186C-TC, but I've not scanned that).
>> >
>> >
>> > Someone else was looking 10 years ago:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> https://alt.sys.pdp11.narkive.com/gXk9CvKT/looking-for-ra80-service-manual-ek-ora80-sv
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I saw that while searching as well.  The service documentation
>> that's
>> available for the R80/RA80 is somewhat useful but lacks detailed technical
>> information, it's a step above a board-swapping guide for service techs,
>> basically.
>>
>> I spent some time yesterday with the schematics (which, annoyingly, don't
>> match my revision of the boards...) and immediately discovered that the
>> optical sensor on the spindle wasn't working anymore -- it was definitely
>> operational when I first started working on it but apparently it gave up
>> the ghost after running for a few hours.  So at minimum I need to fix
>> that,
>> there may still be other faults.  The sensor picks up light, but it looks
>> like the LED light source on the other end of it is dead.  I'm going to
>> attempt to bodge in a replacement IR LED and see if that's good enough...
>>
>> Thanks all,
>> Josh
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > but seemingly with no luck.
>> >
>> >
>> > I think the FMPS must be on bitsavers but I hit this first:
>> >
>> >
>> > https://usermanual.wiki/Document/MP01286RA80Mar82.3622064137
>>
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Antonio
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Antonio Carlini
>> > antonio at acarlini.com
>> >
>> >
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