HP 9817 Usage

2020-05-26 Thread Anders Gustafsson via cctalk
You may want to have a peek at the sync separator I built for my 9000-340. The schematics are available over at VintHp I am also in the process of building a PS/2 and USB to HIL adapter: http://www.dalton.ax/hpkbd/hil/ As for disks. This is one option: http://www.dalton.ax/hpdisk/ Ansgar's HPDr

Old Xerox stuff? 820, 860

2021-11-17 Thread Anders Gustafsson via cctalk
We were cleaning the basement yesterday and I came across some Xerox stuff from the 1980's. For the 860 there are program listings and disk format documentation. For the 820 I have BIOS listings and service manuals for the monitor they used. Ny company happened to work with RX here in Finland an

[cctalk] New DRAM (SIMM) board works but gives a parity error, only on cold powerup

2025-01-19 Thread Anders Gustafsson via cctalk
OK. As usual was the problem quite evident, once I understood it... I have two A400 boards. On that board I tested with I never took note of switch 8. It was unfortunately set to OFF indicating that there was backup power for memory. Thus the power lost flag was never set, which caused the p

[cctalk] AI? Really?

2025-01-20 Thread Anders Gustafsson via cctalk
Yes. I tried Operas Aria and asked a bit about HP1000 A-series. I started by asking the difference between A900 and A400 and got a reply that was partly correct, then followed up with some specific questions about the A400 that I happen to know rather well. It insisted that it had only 32Mb and

[cctalk] New DRAM (SIMM) board works but gives a parity error, only on cold powerup

2025-01-16 Thread Anders Gustafsson via cctalk
Hi! I have been mostly lurking here, but I have been designing a DRAM board for the HP1000 A-Series, using a more modern 72-pin SIMM. The A400 can adress 32Mb of parity ram so I use 17 bits on a 64Mb SIMM. I have taken inspiration from the original HP12103X boards and tried to keep away from es