RE: Fluke T-shooters

Someone on vectorlist found a few and someone else starting writing a
program for Asteroids.

I can pull up that info if you'd like. I'm interested too.

Matt

BTW - How hard would it be to write a program to do effective
troubleshooting on something like Tempest, Star Wars or Sega (Raster or
XY) boards?

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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, John Robertson wrote:

> Ok, then where can we find these old programs? I would like to have them
> for my shop, and would be happy to host an FTP storage site for same.
>
> John :-#)#
>
> At 09:24 AM 1/7/2000 -0800, Clay Cowgill wrote:
> > > Since we're on the topic of the rs-232 port on the 9010...
> > > has anyone looked
> > > into whether there is a terminal mode available so we could
> > > write a pc based
> > > front-end for the t-shooter?? The pc software side would be
> > > a breeze if
> > > that sort of mode is already available. However, if we had to write a
> > > program on the 9010 to translate the commands.... that might
> > > get a little
> > > hairy. Any thoughts?
> >
> >The 9010 has a software compiler and downloader that runs on a PC with a
> >serial port connection. You can write programs that run on the 9010
> >stand-alone, or you can write stuff that uses the PC as a more verbose host
> >for doing automated test scripts and examining the results with user
> >interaction. (The idea was to have the PC be something of an "engineer in a
> >box" that lets technicians carry out complex debugging tasks in short time.
> >Sort of a manually-programmed expert system for debugging a board.)
> >
> >A sample session might go like:
> >
> >PC: Automatically tests RAM and ROM and CPU bus and decides all is well.
> >PC: "Place test probe on pin 2 of IC 2M (74LS00) and press 'enter'"
> >Fluke: *beep* (displays signature of 2AF4)
> >PC: Looks at 2AF4, decides it's right, and directs the trouble shooting to
> >the next step.
> >PC: "Place test probe on pin 6 of IC 3H (74LS393) and press 'enter'"
> >Fluke: *beep* (displays signature of 333F)
> >PC: Decides that that signature is wrong, and based on the program knows
> >that the only thing that could be wrong is a certain IC. The PC displays
> >"IC 1B (74LS02) is defective and needs to be replaced."
> >
> >(obviously it takes more steps than that, but you get the idea.)
> >
> >There are some programs like this floating around for old arade games (I
> >remember Pole Position in particular).
> >
> >-Clay
>
>
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>
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Received on Fri Jan 07 11:52:23 2000