[cctalk] Re: VT100: Failing 2114 Chip Replaced With One With The Same Fault

2023-10-09 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk

On 2023-10-08 10:34, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:


Perhaps it isn't the 2114 or its associated circuit at all.  Maybe some other
device is being incorrectly selected by that address and driving (half) the bus
low?  Just a thought.


Many thanks for the suggestion. This hadn't crossed my mind, so I checked. All 
the things that I could identify on the schematic that connect to the bus 
(UART, interrupt vector, flag buffer and modem signals) seem not to be enabled. 
I have looked at what is sinking the data bus, there is a buffer which seems to 
be OK and the 8251 PIC. The PIC is harder to check but I can see it is not 
selected and the input pins don’t appear to be shorted.


Put a scope on the data bus. You should see it, if two chips are driving 
the bus at the same time ...




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2023-10-09 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk

Hi

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