[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100A monitor output & more....

[Andre Huijts]

It's my impatience and stubbornness :) 

Don't worry, it indicated read errors so I'm pretty sure nothing was actually copied...

But you're right, first goal now is hook up a display, in whatever form.... thanks for all the help so far !!!


Op 9 nov. 2012, om 22:30 heeft Andrew Welburn <andy at andysarcade.net> het volgende geschreven:


> You need to run the editor to view the contents of hard disks or floppy disks... You can't view it on the operators display.

> 

> Andre, why are you copying floppies to your hard disk? Why don't you wait to get a display up and to see what is in the hard drive before you screw it up by copying over and user modified program's?

> 

> I have seen some cool program's that people have written in them, they will help you learn TL/1, so try not to destroy them or screw up the 9100 as it sits, you probably have a fully functioning setup, and believe me, you can crap it up easily if you mess about too much.

> 

> Andrew Welburn (mobile)

> www.andys-arcade.com

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> On 9 Nov 2012, at 21:11, Andre Huijts <a.huijts at upcmail.nl> wrote:

> 

>> That very thought crossed my mind and I actually have one of those things......somewhere.

>> 

>> The bad part is I don't have a working VGA monitor around here anymore.  Which also prevented me from firing up my PC to try to make images of all the floppies I got here.....

>> Will buy a VGA cable first thing in the morning.....at least I can hook up my PC to my TV....will look interesting to see DOS on it :)

>> 

>> Mmmm, the alternative is getting a very small LCD TV and hook up the SCART but I guess that won't do much good in the US...sorry guys :)

>> 

>> Once I got the SCART thing running I can also hook the 9100 up to my TV ;D

>> 

>> Oh and yes Steve, the CPU adapter was in the test socket. By the way, if anyone has an extra 40 pins flat cable to CPU adapter for these pods.......the Z80 had it missing (I used the one from the 6502 pod.....uuhhhhh...ohhh I do hope that is no problem ?

>> 

>> ANother question: is it possible to get some kind of directory from the HD or floppies using just the built-in display ?

>> 

>> I just inserted a floppy with "service tools 1.4" hand written on it and booted from it. It works ! :) At least I know the floppy drive is working....

>> 

>> Also something I noticed: I have two full sets of V6.1 system disks, but there are no User disks. I do have V6.0 User disks. I am assuming V6.1 uses the V6.0 user disk. I tried to copy User disk 2 to the harddisk (yes I know, I'm stubborn) but i got errors on this floppy....

>> 

>> I would badly want a 6809 pod for doing some sigs etc. on Atari Star Wars PCBs,.....but judging by the price of the one on e-bay right now that is probably the most wanted/rare one ?

>> 

>> OK, more than enough for now :)

>> 

>> 

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>> Op 9 nov. 2012, om 21:43 heeft techtools-steve <techtools at arcadehacking.com> het volgende geschreven:

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>>> If the Fluke video output is 15KHz then a Gonbas RGB/MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter could allow you to use the Fluke with a modern VGA LCD panel.  I've got a couple of these boards stashed somewhere and willing to dig them out and give this a try once the signals are confirmed.

>>> 

>>> 

>>> On 11/9/2012 11:23 AM, Andrew Welburn wrote:

>>>> Andre... Look in the schematics for the video card Pinout. The output s RGB, 15khz.. Or CGA... It's there, we aren't lying to you... If in doubt, just scope the outputs and find your RGB and syncs. As stated before, invert each sync signal with an ls04, then join them together to give you composite sync. Then you can feed this to a SCART tv or a regular arcade monitor. Ignore the black and white output.

>>>> 

>>>> You can happily plug and unplug pods while the 9100a is switched on, no problems, otherwise you'd go through a whole lot of power cycling when working on stuff. When you plug a new pod in, you just hit the reset button on the operators keypad.

>>>> 

>>>> Andrew Welburn (mobile)

>>>> www.andys-arcade.com

>>>> 

>>>> On 9 Nov 2012, at 18:56, Andre Huijts <a.huijts at upcmail.nl> wrote:

>>>> 

>>>>> OK I have been digging through the manuals but either I get dizzy by SO much information or it's not in there.

>>>>> 

>>>>> The only info about the monitor connection I can find is this:

>>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/level_42/8170047354/

>>>>> 

>>>>> And that looks like a monochrome set-up. Now the manual says the color set-up is for a "standard IBM monitor", I am sure they mean CGA, but what is the pin-out from the 9100A in color set-up ?

>>>>> 

>>>>> Other question: I am confused about when to hook up the pod. The manual(s) seem to be inconsistent too, but I think mostly they say the 9100A should be powered off before hooking up a pod.

>>>>> Can you damage the pod by connecting it to the 9100A while it's powered up ?

>>>>> I've done this while testing the pods. I did a reset (from the keypad) after replacing the pod.

>>>>> 

>>>>> Note, I'm not talking about UUT power at all yet, I am not that far yet ;)

>>>>> 

>>>>> André

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>> André Huijts

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André Huijts
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