Eric Smith wrote:
> 
> If a schematic isn't available, but a unit was made available on loan to
> reverse-engineer, I'd be willing to do it. 

At this stage, it appears that no original schematic for this board has been 
uncovered.

Efforts are currently underway to reverse-engineer an actual TSC8-75 board and 
derive a useful schematic. It is hopeful there will be something available 
relatively soon.  

The particular board being reverse-engineered has a serial number of <700, so 
it will not have the ESME IOT implemented, but it has been discovered that ETOS 
does not require this IOT in order to run properly.   ETOS will run slightly 
more efficiently if the board supports the ESME IOT (6365), but it will still 
run just fine on the boards that don't have the feature.

I'll try to post updates here as the project progresses.

It is my hope to be able to construct a functional equivalent of one of these 
boards, and get ETOS running on my physical 8/e system.   The biggest challenge 
is going to be replacing the pesky SP380A (12 used on the board) and SP314A 
(one used on the board) chips used for Omnibus interface, but there's a lot of 
discussion in the mailing list archives about replacements that seem to work , 
so it shouldn't be too difficult.

-Rick

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