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Started by Simon Greaves
Mon, 07 Sep 1992 12:41
RT hardware help
Author: Simon Greaves
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 12:41
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 12:41
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Hi,
I have just got hold of most of an IBM RT 125 (6150) and I need help, information and even some hardware....
The system is a Landmark Graphics system, comprising:
RT Advanced Processor Board
2x4Mb fast memory boards
SCSI interface
Micom interlan NP600A-3 ethernet adaptor
2xImagraph L10AGC1210-10P video(?) adaptor cards, 1 linked to
Imagraph Sega layer 6 card with NSI Logic daughter board
Wietek 300-0046-00 with 3002-0047-00 daughter card (?)
The system has 3 internal hard drives (310Mb each I think) and the obligatory floppy drive. The system came with two Sony Trinitron GDM-1950 monitors and an enormous rack box containing yet more hard disks, a 9 track tape and an optical disk drive for huge read/write optical disks.
However, there is *NO* keyboard, *NO* mouse, *NO* cables & *NO* documentation. I have switched the box on & it runs through it's self tests on the small led with no apparent problem, then sits quite happily humming away, but I can't tell what's really happenning without a keyboard and a monitor cable.
I can get hold of an old IBM PC keyboard, but it has a 9 pin DIN plug connector rather than the RT type, are the keyboards compatible if I change the plug? does anyone have the pinouts for the mouse, kbd & serial ports? Better yet, does anyone have unwanted RT keyboard & mouse I can buy (cheap + carriage)?
I also need to know cable spec's for the Imagraph card->GDM1950.
The monitors have 5 BNC connectors; R, G, B, HD & VD, the last two being sync in connections.
The Imagraph L10AGC1210-10P cards each have 9pin female D type connectors
The Imagraph Sega Layer card (to which one of the Imagraph L10* cards is linked via a short ribbon cable) has a 9 pin female D type and a 25 pin female D type connector, none of which are labelled.
I have no idea what the wietek card is or what it does.
In summary:
1) does anyone know the (monitor etc) cable spec for this system?
2) Can I use a standard PC keyboard, and if so how do I convert from 5 pin DIN to RT 6 pin square? Can I convert Logitech mouse (Logimouse P7) with 9 pin D type to RT 6 way?
3) Does anyone have surplus RT keyboard & mouse?
4) What is the pinout for the serial ports s1 & s2?
5) Does anyone know of a Landmark Graphics Corporation contact?
6) What is AOS 4.3 or 4.3/RT?
7) Anyone tell me anything else about this system?
Massively grateful for any help/comments, please feel free to mail me direct, (it's a bit easier for me that way), or via NEWS...
Simon
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Re: RT hardware help
Author: Mark Whetzel
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:39
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:39
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In article <1992Sep7.124134.21598@cs.hw.ac.uk>,
censjg@caledonias3.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Simon Greaves) writes (in part):
> However, there is *NO* keyboard, *NO* mouse, *NO* cables & *NO* documentation.
>
> I can get hold of an old IBM PC keyboard, but it has a 9 pin DIN plug
> connector rather than the RT type, are the keyboards compatible if I
> change the plug?
> Does anyone have the pinouts for the mouse, kbd & serial ports?
> In summary:
> 2) Can I use a standard PC keyboard, and if so how do I convert from 5
> pin DIN to RT 6 pin square? Can I convert Logitech mouse
> (Logimouse P7) with 9 pin D type to RT 6 way?
Here is the pinout on the Keyboard, Don't know if the scancodes are
anywhere near the same, but this came from the IBM Tech Ref Vol I, page 9-23
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| | pin 1 = + 5 Volts
| 5 3 1 | pin 2 = Data
-- -- pin 3 = Speaker
| 6 4 2 | pin 4 = Speaker
| | pin 5 = Ground
--------- pin 6 = Clock
The book has a big chart of scan codes and key function output codes,
larger that I want to post and type, but I am not sure how they compare to
a PC keyboard, if at all.
Locator (mouse or tablet)
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| | pin 1 = Ground
| 5 3 1 | pin 2 = Transmit
-- -- pin 3 = + 12 Vdc
| 6 4 2 | pin 4 = - 12 Vdc
| | pin 5 = + 5 Vdc
--------- pin 6 = Receive
Programmable in 25,50, 100, 200 counts per inch default = 100
Protocol RS232C 9600 Baud async Fullduplex stopbit = 1, odd parity
at reset sends a special 4 byte report sequence 0xFF080000
Stream mode, has a loopback mode, report function stream is:
Byte 1 always = 0x0B
Byte 2 bit 0 1 = right button pressed
bit 1 always 0
bit 2 1 = left button pressed
bit 3,4 always = 00
bit 5 X data sign 1 = negative
bit 6 Y data sign 1 = negative
bit 7 always 0
Byte 3 bits 0-6 X data bit 6=LSB
bit 7 always 0
Byte 4 bits 0-6 Y data bit 6=LSB
bit 7 always 0
How this fits a PC mouse I don't know, but every bit of info can
help when putting things back together.
This info came from an IBM BOOK SA23-2610-0 IBM RT PC Hardware Tech. Ref.
Cheers.. and good luck
markw
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Re: RT hardware help
Author: Daniel A Muntz
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:17
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:17
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In article <1468@airgun.wg.waii.com> markw@airgun.wg.waii.com (Mark Whetzel) writes: >In article <1992Sep7.124134.21598@cs.hw.ac.uk>, > censjg@caledonias3.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Simon Greaves) writes (in part): >> 2) Can I use a standard PC keyboard, and if so how do I convert from 5 >> pin DIN to RT 6 pin square? Can I convert Logitech mouse >> (Logimouse P7) with 9 pin D type to RT 6 way? > >Here is the pinout on the Keyboard, Don't know if the scancodes are >anywhere near the same, but this came from the IBM Tech Ref Vol I, page 9-23 > Unfortunately, the scan codes don't match up. -Dan
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