Re: Tek 85xx development docs?

Two excellent suggestions/info thus far. To Aaron - I do not believe it is
RT-11 format. Anyone else? The CPU in question is a 68000. Like what you
might find on a, oh I don't know, Cosmic Chasm PCB?

I'll let everyone know if the disk reads are successful.

tm

Jeff N K Yeo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I used to work on one of these in the early 80's, targeted at the Z80.
> The system comes in 2 big boxes with a HSI "high speed link" between them.
> The bottom box which manages the 2 8" floppies was run by a DEC LSI-11.
>
> Yes, the floppies (if they still exist) can be duplicated (even the system
> disk)
> after you have booted into system (using the system disk). The console
> instructions was in some scaled down form of UNIX.
>
> The system I used was unreliable and cost a lot to fix. I have studied the
> internal circuitry and it seems to be an overly complicated ICE system
> (compared to the Zilog or the Intel Intellec system of the same genre).
>
> The company at which I worked eventually went belly up, and they junked
> the system.
>
> If you are trying to use it as an ICE, it may be better to look at the
> Microtek ICEs which are PC hosted. The only thing you lose out will
> be the "virtual IOs" function on the TEKxx.
>
> Hope this helps, Jeff
>
> At 04:49 PM 10/30/02 -0800, Tom McClintock wrote:
>
> >Anyone have any Tek 85xx development docs? I'm hoping
> >to get some big 8" floppies created on on of their
> >development stations read. FWIW, the discs in question
> >are double-sided.
> >
> >Should be interesting if the data can be read...
> >
> >Thanks,
> >tom
Received on Thu Oct 31 09:10:14 2002