Tektronik 8560 System

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Tue Apr 17 23:15:21 2001

At 07:29 PM 4/17/01 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>> I have access to a couple of 8560s but I'm fairly certain that there are
>> no drives of any kind on them. Were the drives optional????
>
>These machines are in 2 boxes from what I rmember. One of them contains
>things like the in-circuit emulator boards, a small logic analyser, EPROM
>programmer, and so on. Many of those features are optional -- you
>configured the unit with the bits you needed.
>
>The other box is a PDP11-based [1] computer. It has 2 8" drive bays.
>Standard configurations are 2 floppy drives or one floppy drive and one
>Micropolis 1200-series winchester. I've never heard of one without drives
>at all -- in fact I don't think it could work.
>
>[1] DEC CPU card, either 11/03 or 11/23 and Tektronix I/O and memory.
>
>-tony
>
>

    I guess I'll have to go look. They're all stored elsewhere and I
haven't looked at them in a while. I've never tried to fire any of them up
so it's anybody's guess as to wheather or not they work or if they have any
software in them. They do have DEC 11/23 CPU cards in them. I opened one
one time and pulled the cards out and checked them. The CPU is the only
DEC card in them and all the other cards use an entirely different
connector. I know one of them has a 68000 pod on it and I think one of the
others has a Z-8000 pod and I think there are a couple of loose pods
(6809?) floating around too.

     Joe
Received on Tue Apr 17 2001 - 23:15:21 BST