[Techtoolslist] Fluke 68000 pod version 6 firmware

[Ian Eure]

Tony Jones writes:

> Hi.
>
> I'm repairing a couple of 68000 pods at present and it reminded me
> that I'd always wanted to dig deeper into this.
>
> Does anyone have a 68000 pod running version 6 of the firmware?   It's
> documented in rev 2 of the pod manual,  and the code resides on larger
> 2764 EPROMs to implement the additional QT.
>
> I've owned six 68k pods and I've never seen anything higher than rev 5.
>
> You can get your pod version (on a 9010) by reading F0000012 (after
> taking the pod out of self-test of course).  Output format is hex x0
> where x is the major version.   Not sure how to do this on a 9100 as
> it won't process addresses outside of what it knows as the 24bit
> address space, maybe TL/1.
>
Hmm, I’m not sure what you mean by taking the pod out of self-test.
When I read that address, it selftests in a loop, and I get kicked
back to the main prompt after stopping it.

On my 9100, "READ SPECIAL" let me select 0xF000 0012.  I haven’t
opened it to verify, but assuming this is the correct procedure, it looks like I have a v6 pod: https://imgur.com/a/SADEo

It has a manufacture date of January 1995.

  -- Ian