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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: What I've got and what I'd like to have
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.075942.16291@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:59:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.022626.22158@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
- > I have originals of the schematics and maintenance manual.
- >> I have three extra M8650 current loop interface boards.
- > I have a pile of these too -- but note, the 8650 can do RS232
- > as well as current loop! You can hook modern terminals to
- > them at up to 2400 baud, and even faster if you use jumpers
- > to points not advertised in the manual. Read the extended
- > comments in the board schematics for the M8650 to find out
- > how to make the RS232 cable and how to jumper for higher
- > speeds.
- The M8650 is current loop at 110 baud if the crystal is 14.418 Mhz. To make
- it do the other rates, you have to change the crystal or even the whole
- oscillator circuit to 19.6608 MHz, which is a fairly standard rate. Then
- the lowest baud rate is 150, not 110 baud. The schematics show that the
- original card was designated to go up to 1200 baud only using a set of
- neatly arranged split-lug jumpers, where one side of all of them is in
- common. Basically, you are picking off the proper divide-down output intio
- the next stage, etc. Then there was an ECO to add 2400 baud using another
- similar pair, but located some distance from the 150,300,600,1200 jumpers.
- But, if yo look at the schematic, there is the common run near the chip in
- the upper right hand corner of the card, and pins on that chip are for
- even faster outputs such as 4800, 9600, 19,200, 38,400, etc. and they
- only need a short jumper, although not "neat" or "official".
-
- You can also use the current-loop output for speeds faster than 110 baud,
- but only if you remove (at least one end of) an electrolytic capacitor
- being uses as a filter for the "dirty" input data of the tty commutator.
- When removed, the rate can easily go to 9600 baud current-loop if needed.
- On the KL8-JA card, a routine jumper change implements the same mod, but
- you have to unsolder it here.
-
- Also, note that the KL8E can go faster than the KL8-JA!
- Whether it's current-loop or RS-232 depends on the cable plugged in. There
- is a short designated current-loop connector that ends with a flat Mate'N'Lok
- connector to a DEC current-loop terminal, and it has a jumper to enable the
- current loop input on the module. If it's RS-232, then you have to use the
- BC01V or BC05C cables which implement an alternate jumper for the RS-232
- input convertor. The outputs are both driven so there is no need for an
- output control jumper.
-
- >> I'd be interested in a
- >> source for ASR-33 ribbons and paper.
- > I think it's a standard kind of cloth ribbon. If worse comes
- > to worse, the width of the ribbon is exactly standard, so al
- > you have to do is wind a ribbon from whatever kind of spool
- > you get onto the ASR33 spool.
-
- It's a standard ribbon for a rather ancient standard typewriter.
-
- >> And all of the plastic associated with the air filters in the
- >> desktop case has deteriorated,
- > Strip out the bad filters. If your air is dirty enough to
- > need filtering, go to a furnace store and look at the filter
- > media they have to offer. I've seen some "plastic" furnace
- > filter material that's not too different from the DEC stuff,
- > but thicker. I assume it'd work well enough if you can get
- > it to fit in the path of the airflow. I've got a rack-mount
- > system with no air filters (at least, none remaning) inside
- > the rack. The top-of-rack fan still has a filter, though,
- > but just about anything can be stuffed there.
-
- That urethane foam can be deadly when it flakes apart; better to vacuum it
- all away, and go bare, but air conditioner filter is essentially the same
- stuff, with perhaps a different "weave" and effective density, etc.
-
- cjl
-