26 Apr
2006
26 Apr
'06
10:48 p.m.
Oh, what the hell! I sent outside and dug the rest of the stuff out of
the car. Here's what I have:
6800/02/08, 65xx, 8085, Z-80 and 27xx (programmer?). Looks like a nice
collection of vintage stuff!
I have both pods and interface cards for each of them. In fact, this
stuff looks NEW! Most of it is still wrapped in foam plastic sheeting and
it's VERY clean.
Joe
At 05:06 PM 4/26/06 -0700, you wrote:
Joe R. wrote:
Is anyone familar with this stuff? I picked up
a pile of it a week or
two back. The pod that I'm looking at right now if for the 6800/02/08 but I
think the others are for other CPUs. Anyone know what system it's for? The
interface board uses the same type female connectors as the ss-50 stuff but
many more pins and much larger circuit card. I found some mentions on the
net but nothing useful.
Joe
I work for arium. What do you have? We are now American Arium, and
I can at least find out what you have it you send photos or descriptions.
I suspect maybe you either have an analyzer with some trace pods, or
if you have run control, you may have an EZ/Pro system.
Jim
27 Apr
27 Apr
8:55 a.m.
Joe R. wrote:
Oh, what the hell! I sent outside and dug the rest
of the stuff out of
the car. Here's what I have:
6800/02/08, 65xx, 8085, Z-80 and 27xx (programmer?). Looks like a nice
collection of vintage stuff!
Each of the CPU's would consist of an emulator pod and an
emulator card (see other post of mine). More recent
(less ancient? :> ) emulators moved much of the electronics
into the pod (instead of the emulator card). E.g., the 68010
pod is the size of a large *book*!
The 27xx I suspect is a very *small* pod (like 3x5?) used to
program EPROMs. It requires a programmer card in the EZ-Pro to
function (located adjacent to the serial I/O card, IIRC).
I have both pods and interface cards for each of
them. In fact, this
stuff looks NEW! Most of it is still wrapped in foam plastic sheeting and
it's VERY clean.
1 May
1 May
4:21 p.m.
At 11:55 PM 4/26/06 -0700, you wrote:
Joe R. wrote:
> Oh, what the hell! I sent outside and dug the rest of the stuff out of
> the car. Here's what I have:
>
> 6800/02/08, 65xx, 8085, Z-80 and 27xx (programmer?). Looks like a nice
> collection of vintage stuff!
Here at last is a picture of one of the American Automation (American
Arium EZ-Pro) boards and pods that I found. This is the 6800/02/08 board
and pod. <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/Xeon/American%20Automation%206800.jpg>
Joe
9:17 p.m.
Joe R. wrote:
At 11:55 PM 4/26/06 -0700, you wrote:
The top card goes into the "chassis" (it's about the size of a
mini-AT tower but considerably heavier due to the power supply).
The white connector along the bottom edge of the card mates
with the "backplane" in the chassis. (and, actually *supports*
the card... I don't believe there are any "card guides" in
the chassis!)
The lower "box" is the "pod". Ribbon cables connect it to the
card (above). Often, (always?) those ribbon cables have two
(or even THREE) IDC connectors on the end at 1" intervals
to connect to that card plus adjacent cards in the chassis
(e.g., the high speed memory card). Note that this pod and
the aforementioned card are a *set* -- two halves of a
"ribbon cable interface", so to speak.
Later (newer) pods had more brains in them so the emulator
cards got simpler... (but the pods got BIGGER!)
The 40 pin DIP "plug" attaches the pod to your target hardware.
(a good idea is to slip another machined pin DIP socket onto
that plug so that any pins that get broken are on the *socket*
and not the plug itself -- even if the plug already has a
socket snapped onto it!)
If you can find a chasis, I can try to find the debugger
software for this particular CPU...
Joe R. wrote:
> Oh, what the hell! I sent outside and dug the rest of the stuff out of
> the car. Here's what I have:
>
> 6800/02/08, 65xx, 8085, Z-80 and 27xx (programmer?). Looks like a nice
> collection of vintage stuff!
Here at last is a picture of one of the American Automation (American
Arium EZ-Pro) boards and pods that I found. This is the 6800/02/08 board
and pod. <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/Xeon/American%20Automation%206800.jpg>
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