Re: IC Tester [was: Memory tester]

Mmmm, perhaps a bit more complex than I recall. Here's a picture I just
found:

http://www.moosenet.demon.co.uk/temp/apple2/IC_tester.jpg

Wonder what's in the 'mystery' black box?

tm

John Robertson wrote:
>
> Does anyone have this test device (Fairy IC tester) that could figure out
> the schematic? Or take some pictures of the interface board - perhaps it is
> simply buffers for the test socket.
>
> Reading through the disk (Fairy... on TTL FTP) it looks like it tests TTL
> 54/74, CMOS 40/45, and HCMOS 74HC series - appears to be written in BASIC(?
> - been years since I last looked at APPLE II stuff) (RUN HELLO2, BRUN HMOS
> & this and that)...I can't find anything to do with RAM tests unfortunately...
>
> I wonder how many of us have Apple II's sitting on a shelf? I have three
> that still work...but this program might not be worth it - if someone else
> would like to look and confirm/deny my results just to be sure though that
> might be useful.
>
> John :-#)#
>
> At 08:36 AM 21/07/2003 -0700, Matt Rossiter wrote:
>
> >So, how hard would it be to build an adapter using a ZIF socket which
> >could plug into your computer and test IC's. Would the software need to
> >be modified?
> >
> >
> >Matt
> >
> >_____________________________________________________________________
> >
> >On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Tom McClintock wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Dunno if TELEDISK was used on the original floppy. The disk image will
> > > read just fine in any Apple ][ emulator though. I hope it can be of some
> > > use.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > tm
> > >
> > > John Robertson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > These files are now on TTL (FTP)- perhaps Tom could tell us if they are
> > > > stored with TELEDISK?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Tom!
> > > >
> > > > John :-#)#
> > > >
> > > > At 05:10 PM 07/07/2003 -0500, Tom McClintock wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >On a similar note to the Ming IC tester, I have some software for the
> > > > >Fairy IC tester. The 'Fairy' was an add-on board for the Apple II which
> > > > >had a ZIF socket on it and could presumably test all sorts of early
> > > > >80's TTL and RAM?
> > > > >
> > > > >Since the files are 6502-based, perhaps someone can extract the
> > > > >appropriate data? Dunno. I'll upload them to John's ftp site.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >tm
> > > >
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Received on Mon Jul 21 11:27:44 2003