Battery warning in Falco terminals

[Mike Stein]

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Subject: Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals


On 2018-Nov-20, at 1:21 AM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
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> Subject: Battery warning in Falco terminals
> ... 
>> Also, I suspect the first generation of terminals all have similar hardware with different
>> firmware, so if someone has any of the other models (TS-1, etc.) we could get them simulated
>> pretty easily once the firmware is dumped.
>> 
> -----------------------------
> Don't forget the three PROMs ;-)
> 
> There were at least 2 models of the TS-1; the TS-1SP added paging & scrollback among other features, and there was also the similar TS-100.
> 
> Their magnetic core & transformer keyboard technology always intrigued me; very reliable & spillproof but I never saw it used anywhere else.



Were there 3 PROMs on the TS-1? I don't remember (and unfortunately didn't dump them, unless you're including the character generator amongst the 3).
They were probably soldered in and I was probably thinking mainly about eraseable chips and did the CG as well as it (would have been) socketed.
If they were small PROMs, they were perhaps I/O and memory address decoding.

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I was talking about the 2624 and yes, they're small 32 byte PROMs for decoding; probably not relevant for an emulator (therefore the smiley) but maybe useful to archive for repair purposes.

On my 2624s two are soldered in and one is socketed.

I can't find my box of TS-1 boards so I'll have to open one up to see what's on there.

I'll have a look for the box with documentation but it might be a while; BTW, my inventory says that I _do_ have a User's manual for the TS-2624 (V1.16).

FALCO   TS-1 Maint Man & Tech Bulletins 2/82
FALCO   TS-1 Operator's Guide
FALCO   TS-1 "Programmer's Guide, Pgmg Hints & Tips"
FALCO   TS-1 "TS-1SP Tutorial, TS-1 FW Rel V2.15, SP1.10"
FALCO   TS-100SP Operator's Guide
FALCO   FAME100 Users Manual
FALCO   TS-2624 User's Manual V1.16 (HP emulation)
FALCO   5220E Programmer's Manual