Re: Identifying mystery TI ICs (Motorola MDP-1000 investigation continues...)

2020-10-05 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
The making of this computer  perhaps explain why I never had someone wander in and talk about designing or building a MOTOROLA MINICOMPUTER Ed# On Monday, October 5, 2020 Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 1:10 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 10/4/20 11:13 PM, Josh D

Re: Identifying mystery TI ICs (Motorola MDP-1000 investigation continues...)

2020-10-05 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 1:10 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 10/4/20 11:13 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > > > Just made a minor breakthrough; a random usenet post suggested that the > > MDP-1000 was just a rebadged General Automation SPC-12, and so it is. I > > suspect the internals of t

Re: Identifying mystery TI ICs (Motorola MDP-1000 investigation continues...)

2020-10-05 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/4/20 11:13 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: Just made a minor breakthrough; a random usenet post suggested that the MDP-1000 was just a rebadged General Automation SPC-12, and so it is. I suspect the internals of the unit I have (which is badged as an "MDP-6650" on the rear) are a bit di

Re: Identifying mystery TI ICs (Motorola MDP-1000 investigation continues...)

2020-10-04 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 11:42 AM Josh Dersch wrote: > On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 10:26 AM Brent Hilpert via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> On 2020-Oct-04, at 1:22 AM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: >> >> > More mysteries while poking at the MDP-1000. Spent some time this >> evening >> >

Re: Identifying mystery TI ICs (Motorola MDP-1000 investigation continues...)

2020-10-04 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 10:26 AM Brent Hilpert via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2020-Oct-04, at 1:22 AM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > > > More mysteries while poking at the MDP-1000. Spent some time this > evening > > working out the rest of the signals on the power harness (I su

Re: Identifying mystery TI ICs (Motorola MDP-1000 investigation continues...)

2020-10-04 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2020-Oct-04, at 1:22 AM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > More mysteries while poking at the MDP-1000. Spent some time this evening > working out the rest of the signals on the power harness (I suspect inputs > for an LTC circuit and a "power good" signal, as well as something > connected to a

Identifying mystery TI ICs (Motorola MDP-1000 investigation continues...)

2020-10-04 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
More mysteries while poking at the MDP-1000. Spent some time this evening working out the rest of the signals on the power harness (I suspect inputs for an LTC circuit and a "power good" signal, as well as something connected to a relay on the backplane, probably related to power control). There