Hi Tony, Many thanks for this manual. I've already identified some dried out capacitors in my readers, once they have been replaced I can use the manual to go through the setup procedures.
Thanks for the offer of the HSR500 manual but I already have an electronic copy of it, I think from Bitsavers. I have been able to compress your manual down to under 8Mb using a free trial of an online Adobe utility. https://www.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html Thanks once again for your help. As an aside, I saw in the conversation thatsomeone thought the UDR700 was used on the Ferranti FM1600B. When I was a Ferranti apprentice in the early 1970s I worked in the FM1600B commissioning area in Doncastle Road Bracknell. The only reader used then was a rebadged ICL TRM 1000. With this reader you really did have to aim the tape into the collection basket!! Kind Regards, Malcolm Clark On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 at 18:28, Tony Duell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM Malcolm Clark via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Martin, > > I am looking for a manual for the above tape reader and found your > details > > from a discussion on cctalk from July 2022. > > > > I am a volunteer at The National Museum of Computing and an ex Ferranti > > engineer. I am currently restoring an Argus 500 computer and trying to > get > > it back to its original configuration. I have recently restored 2 Trend > > HSR 500 readers and now have acquired 2 UDR 700 readers that need to be > > fixed and set up. > > I've uploaded the UDR350/UDR700 manual to my google drive here : > > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tqFbQ9S1SJd4DwsR6J7qlBiEWVpbmKnc/view?usp=sharing > > It's a _LARGE_ file, you might be able to compress it somehow. Please > let me know when you've taken it so I can delete it to save space on > the googled drive, of course I'll keep a copy on my machine. > > > Do you also need the HSR500/HSR500P manual? I have that too. > > > My latest video on YouTube > > > > https://youtu.be/8HtRqe6jzc8?si=MmRL4qbh_7PZjVff > > > > In the email you said you had scanned the document into a file. Would it > > be possible to upload it to Google Drive and send me the link so I can > > download it? Ultimately I would like to upload it to the Museum archive > > and make it available for everyone to view. I am assuming that there are > > no copyright issues as Trend was finally wound up as a company in > December > > 2022. > > It's probably still under copyright owned by somebody, but my > experience is that companies don't normally care about 50-year-old > service manuals. > > -tony >
