I've mentioned this before, but Fundamental Software has a huge collection of 
manuals and old
equipment.  When I was there once I wandered around their lab and saw just 
about every device
I could remember.  They have the old parallel channel cable assembly machine 
and all sorts of
prehistoric stuff.  I know they have the maintenance carts for most equipment 
and there's just
a chance they have some duplicates.

I remember the 3880 rollout, since the damn thing plays fast and loose with the 
channel
timings - it doesn't conform to the OEMI.  I think the actual tag timing it 
uses is in the
Functional Characteristics manual.

There also used to be a contraption called a "Holly Box" for checking a 
controller's tag
timing.

-- 
  Phil Payne
  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
  +44 7833 654 800

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