No, it's an H/Z89 was: Re: Z-100 find ?

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Mon May 10 17:38:27 1999

ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
> > UART, as I recall, instead of one of the more standard FD-
>
> Actually, it's a USRT chip (Universal Synchronous Receiver Transmitter).
> A 2350 IIRC...

Thanks Tony
 I couldn't remember what was there but did remember it was a serial
chip and not a disk interface chip.

--snip--
> > The video part was actually a H19 terminal, hard wire to
>
> Yes, a plain H19. You can actually connect one of the rear-panel
> connectors to the Terminal Logic Board (Unplug one of the cables from the
> 3-channel serial card and connect it to the terminal logic board in place
> of the cable that goes to the CPU board.
--snip--
> Press the 'Off Line' key
> (latches down) to put the terminal section into 'local' mode if you want.
> If the terminal logic board is working correctly, you should get a beep
> at power-on and then a cursor in the top left of the screen (if you have
> a working CPU board and the off line key isn't down at power-on, you get
> 2 beeps, one from the terminal, one caused by the processor).
>
> The first thing should be to get the terminal working. Forget about the
> CPU board, get the Z19 parts doing something.

 I'd forgotten about the Off Line key. Like Tony says, get the
terminal part working first or did he say "They're Great!" ;)
I don't remember the baud rate, that it was set for, but 9600
seems to stand out in my mind.
Dwight
Received on Mon May 10 1999 - 17:38:27 BST