Eureka!

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Feb 9 17:34:40 2003

> Here's what my manual says about jumpers for the 98032A:

[...]

Sure. I have the Installation/Service manual for the 98032, which gives
much the same info (and a full schematic of the interface).

The 98032 had several 'options', though. The basic model was for custom
applications and had a back shell with an unterminated cable (which you
had to wire to the appropriate connector(s) for your applications), and
no jumpers installed.

The 'options' were for specific HP peripherals. I believe that the 9866
printer, one of the disk drives, the 9877 cartridge tape unit, a badged
Facit 4070 paper tape punch, etc were all connected to the 9825 via a
correctly configured 98032 interface. The 'option' consisted of having
the right connector correctly wired to the cable and having the right
jumpers factory-installed to set the interface up correctly.

Alas the manual I have does not give any info on how the 'options' were
wired. Yes I could probably work it out in most cases, but it would be
nice to know the official way to do it.

Here's an example, from the only 'option' I have -- for the 9885 disk
drive:

DD50 Wire 98032 Signal
1 9 A25 Drain
2 905 A1 Gnd
3 906 B1 Gnd
4 927 A22 Ctl0
5 902 A21 PReset
6 928 A23 Ctl1
7 918 B21 EIR
8 9 A18 Gnd
9 9 B18 Drain
10 98 A19 Pctl
11 903 A24 Gnd
12 904 B24 Gnd
13 8 B19 Pflg
14 908 B20 Psts
15 901 A20 I/O
16 916 B22 Sti0
17 917 B23 Sti1
18 948 A2 DO15
19 947 A3 DO14
20 946 A4 DO13
21 945 A5 DO12
22 937 A6 DO11
23 936 A7 DO10
24 935 A8 DO9
25 934 A9 DO8
26 97 A10 DO7
27 96 A11 DO6
28 95 A12 D05
29 94 A13 DO4
30 93 A14 DO3
31 92 A15 DO2
32 91 A16 DO1
33 90 A17 DO0
34 N/C
35 926 B2 DI15
36 925 B3 DI14
37 924 B4 DI13
38 923 B5 DI12
39 915 B6 DI11
40 914 B7 DI10
41 913 B8 DI9
42 912 B9 DI8
43 7 B10 DI7
44 6 B11 DI6
45 5 B12 DI5
46 4 B13 DI4
47 3 B14 DI3
48 2 B15 DI2
49 1 B16 DI1
50 0 B17 DI0

Jumpers :
2 Output +ve true
7 DMA Enable
8 Clock high input byte on rdy
B Word Input
E Clock low input byte on rdy
F Word Output


THe 9877 has a 50 pin Blue Ribbon connector on the back. I know what the
signals on that are, and can make a guess at how to wire them to a 98032.
I can also make a guess as to what jumpers to fit. But if anyone has the
right option it would save that guess work.

-tony
Received on Sun Feb 09 2003 - 17:34:40 GMT

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