Re: Altos ACS 8000-7 (8200) mainboard wanted / Shugart 4008 motor pulley

2015-07-12 Thread Jay Jaeger
Oh, yeah I get it - an in circuit emulator. With my logic analyzer I can also watch all the bus transactions (or directly on the CPU if needs be) to see what is going on, as well. I have an Intel MDS IV with an ICE for (IIRC) an 8051, but have never used it for that purpose to date. JRJ On

Re: Altos ACS 8000-7 (8200) mainboard wanted / Shugart 4008 motor pulley

2015-07-12 Thread wulfman
no not a software emulator a hardware emulator you remove the Z80 and plug in a cable lets you step through the code test memory and run the board at full speed hardware emulators are for the debugging of the hardware. unlike software emulators that run on a host PC that let you run old software

Re: Altos ACS 8000-7 (8200) mainboard wanted / Shugart 4008 motor pulley

2015-07-12 Thread wulfman
heh thats way more work than a plug in emulator good luck on it On 7/11/2015 2:49 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: Oh, yeah I get it - an in circuit emulator. With my logic analyzer I can also watch all the bus transactions (or directly on the CPU if needs be) to see what is going on, as well. I

Altos ACS 8000-7 (8200) mainboard wanted / Shugart 4008 motor pulley

2015-07-10 Thread Jay Jaeger
Long story, but I recently acquired an Altos ACS 8000-2 with an 8100-01 mainboard (which currently is not functioning). Acquired it on eBay where it was represented as an ACS-8000-7, along with an Altos 8000-7A 29MB hard disk (a Shugart 4008). The hard disk was fine, but the computer

Re: Altos ACS 8000-7 (8200) mainboard wanted / Shugart 4008 motor pulley

2015-07-10 Thread wulfman
On 7/10/2015 7:50 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: Long story, but I recently acquired an Altos ACS 8000-2 with an 8100-01 mainboard (which currently is not functioning). Acquired it on eBay where it was represented as an ACS-8000-7, along with an Altos 8000-7A 29MB hard disk (a Shugart 4008).