RE: Logic Analyzer

> I guess this email is directed mostly towards Clay, but I thought it might
> be a good discussion to bring back up.
>
> I've been thinking of picking up a Tek 1241 logic analyzer sometime in the
> near future and have noticed one or too discussions in the past about
> developing a mnemonics multicart for the processors commonly found in our
> beloved games. (6502, z80, 6809, etc)
>
> Is this multi-mnemonic cart (or should I say Multi-Pack?) still a future
> possibity?
>
Yes, actually. It's just fallen off my radar since Jeff was the only person
asking me for it. ;-)

Since the Tek1240/1 was designed up here at Tek (I actually interviewed the
guy behind it for a position here at Diamond!) I've found some local guys in
Tek product support that loaded me up with all the ROM images and I bought
all the old cartridges I could to use the housings for new carts. It's
pretty trivial to make some multi-carts for it, but I wanted to also include
the functionality of a 64K SRAM cart for storing profiles. I just need to
do some more ohm-ing out the SRAM carts.

While I'm thinking of it-- if anyone needs a really loaded-for-bear Arium
ML4400 Logic Analyzer, drop me a note. (No pods, but 400 channels at full
100MHz splittable into four separate 100 channel/100MHz "virtual" logic
analyzers.) It's preloaded with every mnemonic software they had (z80,
6502, 6809, 68000, 1802, 6800, 8088, 8080, 80486,pentium, etc.) They were
used by Sequent up here to debug multi-processor Pentium systems...

-Clay

> Matt
>
>
> > the mnemonics packs are
> > impossible to get.. I only found one at $100 for 68020. I
> > guess you can program your own in though if you have a RAM
> > pack? I'm not too sure on that one.. The RAM packs seem to be not all
> > that
> > elusive, but at least $100 each..
> >
> RAM packs are out there for reasonable dollars. I had NO luck finding
> the mnemonic packs (and they designed and built the thing here). I
> finally had a Tek employee catch a want-ad from me and send it to the
> "right person" at Tek and got in touch with someone there that knew
> about them. He made me 6502, 6809, 68HC11, and Z80 packs in exchange
> for a bunch of Diamond hardware I bought through my employee purchase
> account. I'll look into making a multi-mnemonic cart 'cause I *know*
> how hard it is to find the ROM packs! They're really cool, but a pain
> to hook up unless you can dedicate some leadsets to a 40-pin DIP clip...
>
> > Id say go with a Tek because Clay has one :>
> > I'll be first in line for a mnemonics multicart..
> >
> :-) We still have a 1240 here at Diamond (from our Supra Corp. days).
> It's still useful and the only thing the engineers really like to use.
> (the Tek is just soooooo easy to setup and use compared to the
> HP16550...)
>
> -Clay
>
Received on Wed Oct 20 12:43:38 1999