Slightly-OT: Philips SAA5240 User's Manual

[Fred Cisin]

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On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Tony Duell wrote:
> Only if
>
> a) It can be connected to a classic PERQ or a PDP11 with an I2S Model 70
> iamge display (these being the 2 machines I have with reasonable graphics)
>
> b) You have (or can gat) a proper service manual for it
>
> c) Spares are available

We'll leave a) up to you.  We are confident that you could design and
build an interface.   RS232 style of serial, "Centronics" style of
parallel, or [ALMOST] standard SCSI

As for c), some are so common that we could ship you enough "spares" to
use as bricks to build a shed.  Each set of spare parts is connected
together identically to the device, so that identifying the individual
spare part can be done by where it is mounted in the kit of spares.

b) is the stumbling block.  Way too much of the USA (and other) industry
considers proper service manuals to be a matter of "trade secret"s!


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com