Re: IBM MST extender cards

2019-10-10 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:17:38PM +1000, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: > But I do still have the tool bag identical to the one in the foreground, > in the same russet brown colour but the zipper canvas has dry rotted. Oh wow, what a great resource page :-) What I kind of meant to imply was

Re: IBM MST extender cards

2019-10-10 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Mark said > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:16:34AM +1000, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: >> That wire wrap tool is identical to one my dad had in his CE toolkit > > I ... should take it from this that people don't just *own* these anymore? > > This was an "essntial device" in my younger engineering

Re: IBM MST extender cards

2019-10-10 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:16:34AM +1000, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: > That wire wrap tool is identical to one my dad had in his CE toolkit I ... should take it from this that people don't just *own* these anymore? This was an "essntial device" in my younger engineering days. Sigh. Yes,

Re: IBM MST extender cards

2019-10-10 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Al said > https://www.ebay.com/itm/352810055470 > > are these extender cards for IBM MST modules? > > Very nice, great find. That wire wrap tool is identical to one my dad had in his CE toolkit (now lost unfortunately). Are there any other markings on it apart from the IBM p/n?

Re: Mystery chip SCM44506L

2019-10-10 Thread dwight via cctalk
That would make sense if these were OTP or fused parts. Wouter, can you check the pins with an ohm meter, to what we think are power and ground. Outputs usually look different than inputs. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Brent Hilpert via cctalk Sent:

DEC Rainbow Univation Docs / Software

2019-10-10 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
This is a bit of a hail mary... I recently won a Univation Intenral Hard Disk System for the DEC Rainbow 100 card, memory and drive. But it came with the wrong docs and no diskettes. Any chance that anybody has anything in this area squirreled away somewhere? Warner

Re: IBM MST extender cards

2019-10-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
cool. there was also a 327x debug box that I won https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-Tester-in-Case-with-Templates-IBM-Collector/352805885595 On 10/10/19 11:54 AM, Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk wrote: > On 10/10/19 7:49 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> https://www.ebay.com/itm/352810055470 >>

Re: IBM MST extender cards

2019-10-10 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 10/10/19 7:49 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > https://www.ebay.com/itm/352810055470 > > are these extender cards for IBM MST modules? > They look like it, with a right-angle adapter plugged into the end. -- Lawrence Wilkinson lawre...@ljw.me.uk Ph +41(0)79

Re: Mystery chip SCM44506L

2019-10-10 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2019-Oct-10, at 5:33 AM, Wouter de Waal via cctech wrote: >> Very likely a semi custom or custom memory device, due to the prefix. > > Armed with that and the fact that pin 1 connects to the leadframe I figured > maybe it's something like the 6830 Mikbug prom -- 0V on 1, 5V on 12, data on >

IBM MST extender cards

2019-10-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
https://www.ebay.com/itm/352810055470 are these extender cards for IBM MST modules?

Re: Mystery chip SCM44506L

2019-10-10 Thread dwight via cctalk
Maybe they are OTP? Dwight From: cctech on behalf of Wouter de Waal via cctech Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 5:33 AM To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Mystery chip SCM44506L > >Very likely a semi custom or custom memory device, due to the prefix.

RE: Mystery chip SCM44506L

2019-10-10 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/Notebook/Notebook_Index.htm Maybe useful? -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Wouter de Waal via cctalk Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:33 AM To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Mystery chip SCM44506L >

Re: Mystery chip SCM44506L

2019-10-10 Thread Wouter de Waal via cctalk
Very likely a semi custom or custom memory device, due to the prefix. Armed with that and the fact that pin 1 connects to the leadframe I figured maybe it's something like the 6830 Mikbug prom -- 0V on 1, 5V on 12, data on the left, address on the right. Tried reading it like that (for