VT180/Robin system help needed

From: Claude <claudew_at_sprint.ca>
Date: Mon Dec 18 21:23:08 2000

Hi

Picked up 2 boxes full of VT180 stuff from a ex Digital employee.

Got a keyboard, Vt100 and robin board, small "backplane" board, 2
Shuggart 400L Digital branded drives and 4 RX50-AA drives. Also got a
VT100 keyboard and a VT100 power supply and several cables. Seems
everything is there except VT100 case/crt...could always build this in
some full/half tower AT PC case...still I will hunt for a VT100...this
is for collecting and not using really...

The owner told me the Robin board was modified to use 1M drives (?).
There are a couple ou wire jumpers on the Robin board. Also got some
disks, Robin schematics, a few CP/M manuals...

Questions:(I have not looked at the schematics yet......)

2 BNC connectors on the Robin board. Whats coming outta there? video? on
both? composite?

What drives should I be using to boot the Robin? The RX50-AAs or the
Shugarts 400L?

I see 2 DB25 ports on the Robin board and a larger (DBxx) on the VT100
board, anything special?

DIP switches on VT100...whats the deal there?

Anything else I should look out for?

Anybody know where VT180 info is available...I would like to see the
guts of one...

Thanks for the Help again

Claude
The Canuk Computer Collector
Received on Mon Dec 18 2000 - 21:23:08 GMT