New Stuff

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Mon Feb 15 20:34:21 1999

You wrote:
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I picked up a Northwest Instruments MicroAnalyst 2000 today...
> >
> > I have one of those. It's a logic/bus analyzer tool. Did you
> > get any pods with it?
>
> I went back and checked. There are a number of software disks, four pods
> labeled "Interactive State Analyzer", ribbon cables, an IBM interface board,
> a "State Analyzer Demo Board", and two versions of manuals. There is also a
> stick of chips with a label saying Input Chips, and to keep spares as they
> are sensitive to static damage. Haven't quite figured out why it was in
> there, but there is an IBM UCSD P-System Runtime Support package version
> IV.0. Just starting to make sure the disks are readable now.

The ISA card goes in a target machine. Mine is a PC-2 (5 slot 4.77MHz PC)
with a 15Mb disk. All it does is run the Northwest Instruments box. I
also have a pod that attaches to a 64-pin socket that has a 68000 chip
on the top and pins below. You pry out your 68K and stick this tower in
its place, and it traces the last 4096 bus accesses and disassembles the
code in real time. Quite a box, if you have all the components. I used
mine to prove to a hardware designer that his board was faulty (he swapped
UDS and LDS on the 68000 socket, preventing byte-reads from working).

-ethan
Received on Mon Feb 15 1999 - 20:34:21 GMT

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