I pulled all the cards out of my system except the CPU card
The 3 memory cards and a single serial I/O Card.
With just 5 cards in place the system still booted up and asked
If I wanted to load VAL from the floppy.
I pulled the memory cards and the system powered up without any
Messages at all.
I am packing for a biz trip tonight, Next weekend I will try a few more
Tests to see if I can get the system to boot in a minimal state
(1 CPU, 1 MEMORY, 1 SERIAL card)
It seems that some RAM is needed for the CPU to do anything so I am guessing
That at least one RAM card will be needed.
When you say CPU CARDS, do you mean the computer cards including
The serial card, RAM and the actual CPU card?
There should only be 1 CPU card.. IT will have a HUGE chip on it
That should look like it has two smaller chips mounted on it’s back.
The memory cards all look like you would expect.. Rows of memory chips.
I have some pictures I will try to upload after 14 hours of meetings Tuesday night.
The hotel room web connection could limit my upload speed but I’ll do what I can.
I think there may be a way to get the CPU into a DEBUG mode with just the three cards installed and NO VAL.
-Mike