HP 1650/1651 Logic Analyzer Disk Images

[gslick]

Hate when I don't notice a cut-paste error until after it is too late to edit a post. The 1660 series section in the previous post should have been the following below. Hope I haven't missed other errors or typos.

HP 1660 series:

• HP 1660A mono CRT, 4K sample depth, floppy only, no LAN option (1994)
  HP 1660AS add 2 channel, 1 GSa/s, 250MHz, 8K sample per channel scope
• HP 1660C mono CRT, 4K sample depth, hard drive, LAN with Opt 015 (1996)
  HP 1660CS add 2 channel, 1 GSa/s, 250MHz, 8K sample per channel scope
• HP 1660E color LCD, 4K sample depth, hard drive, LAN standard (1999)
  HP 1660ES adds 2 channel, 2 GSa/s, 500MHz, 32K sample per channel scope
  HP 1660EP adds 32 channel 256K vector depth per channel pattern generator
• 1670A, 1670D, 1670E, 1670G 136 channels
• 1671A, 1671D, 1671E, 1671G 102 channels
• 1672A, 1672D, 1672E, 1672G 68 channels
• 1660A, 1660C, 1660E 136 channels
• 1661A, 1661C, 1661E 102 channels
• 1662A, 1662C, 1662E 68 channels
• 1663A, 1663C, 1663E 34 channels
• 1664A 34 channels, 50MHz state

 

[HammysHangout]

What's the best way to archive floppy disks? can we use a grease weasel? I have some 1660 upgrade kits that came with a bunch of disks.. these kits expanded the 1663/2/1 to full 136 channels.

I also have a bunch 166x/167x units i am willing to part with for anybody in the central florida area would be interested, as i am using mostly 1680X/1690X/1690D in my repairs

 

[Chuck(G)]

IMD should do the job, be the disks LIF or FAT.

 

[gotcha]

For the 1661A floppy disk that I shared here, I used a Greaseweazle and a standard HD 3.5" drive.
IMD is indeed a good format because it keeps the original sector interleaving information.

 

[BloodyCactus]

Nope

PA/RISC analyzers run HP/UX but the 68K analyzers do not

well it contains a bunch of SUN + BSD copyrights, runs X/ftp/telnet, so I made an assumption

I know its got a rockymountain basic type thing underneath too. now I remember, we poked around it on eevblog many years ago and its a variant of pSOS (Portable Software On Silicon), its an RTOS for 68k cpu's.

 

[Al Kossow]

Nope

The problem is that when Wind River bought the company that made pSOS they
killed it. No one appears to have saved copies of the software or the documentation
of the original pSOS (not pSOS+) including HP. A lot of the teardown stuff and firmware
dumps on bitsavers was from when I was attempting to reconstruct that knowledge.
Lately, Eric Smith was doing the same but primarily for the 167xx era analyzers.