[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9110FT SPECTRUM-TX diskettes imaged

Tue Jan 9 11:52:22 EST 2018

Did you verify the address of the fluke?

On Jan 9, 2018 11:08 AM, "Ian Eure" <ian at retrospec.tv> wrote:

> Following up on this.  I tried setting everything up, and got some
> promising signs, but haven’t been able to get it fully working.  I’m
> dumping what I figured out in the hopes that someone else can give it
> a shot, or come up with some suggestions for me to try.
>
> The only 9100 with GPIB I have with actually is a 9110FT, which is
> perfect for this -- there shouldn’t be any issues due to using the
> wrong mainframe.
>
> First thing I did is set up GPIB on it.  This process is kind of a
> hassle.
>
> 1. Boot a service disk, select CONFIGURE, and make sure IEEE is
>    enabled.  Power cycle the mainframe.
> 2. Install the IEEE-411 feature disk.  Use the COPY function, selecing
>    DR1 as the source and HDR as the destination.
> 3. Go into the setup menu, pick ON BOOT, select IEEE, select ENABLED.
>    Hit ENTER/YES.
> 4. Make sure a pod is connected, then power-cycle the mainframe.
> 5. Go into SETUP, press MORE SOFTKEYS, and there should be a new IEEE
>    softkey.  Configure it like the SPECTRUM-TX readme.txt says:
>    address 3, talker/listener, no terminator.
> 6. Install the SPECTRUM-TX software the same way as the feature disk,
>    with COPY.
> 7. Run TS_INIT.  From the operator’s keypad, press EXEC.  If there’s a
>    UUT name filled out, press CONT to erase it -- this selects PROGLIB
>    instead of a UUT directory program.  Then press HELP, select
>    TS_INIT, accept the default arguments, and hit ENTER/YES.  This
>    initializes SPECTRUM-TX for the attached pod.  If you change pods,
>    you need to repeat this process.
> 8. Run TS_CLIFF, the same way as TS_INIT.  The 9100 should say "Under
>    PC Control (9110TX Ver. 1.0)".
>
> That’s it for the 9100 end of things.
>
> Since I don’t have another 9100 with GPIB, I don’t know if this works
> on a 9100 or 9105.  I tried it on a 9100A just to see what happened,
> but it didn’t work.  TS_INIT did its thing, but running TS_CLIFF
> errored with an "option not installed" message.  I assume this is just
> referring to the GPIB interface, but I can’t confirm.
>
>
> On the PC end, I used a rackmount Pentium MMX 233mhz machine.  This is
> the only PC I have with ISA slots. It’s a 233mhz Pentium MMX, and
> normally runs plain MS-DOS 6.22.  I installed Windows for Workgroups
> 3.11 so I could try this out.
>
> I bought a National Instruments GPIB-PCII/IIA, because it seems to be
> supported and was the cheapest I could find on eBay ($22 shipped).
> The driver for this (and many other NI GPIBs) is called "NI-488.2",
> and version 2.6 supports Windows 3.  They still host it on their
> website, along with nice PDF manuals, so kudos to them.
>
> The NI driver package includes a hardware self-test, which I verified
> was passing (after moving some other hardware around so I could
> allocate it an IRQ).
>
> After that, I installed SPECTRUM-TX.  The installer is goofy.  There
> are two programs, one called SETUP.EXE, for DOS, and one WSETUP.EXE
> for Windows. SETUP.EXE entirely doesn’t work, but WSETUP.EXE only
> mostly doesn’t work.  They both copy a very few files to the hard
> disk;  WSETUP also creates Program Manager icons for SPECTRUM-TX, but
> they all point to files on the floppy disk.  I ran WSETUP.EXE, then
> copied everything from the floppy into the install directory and
> updated the Program Manager entries to point there.
>
> Okay, so all that done, cable connected, I ran TS_CLIFF on the Fluke
> and SPECTRUM-TX on the PC.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, the Windows program says it can’t communicate with the
> Fluke.  When you launch the Windows program, the Fluke display changes
> to "REMOTE CONTROL IN PROGRESS" -- so it received the right command
> from the PC.  And when you hit the OK button on the PC, the Fluke
> resets back to the main display, so it’s got to be receiving something
> from the PC telling it to do that.  They’re definitely talking, but
> something isn’t right from the PC’s perspective.
>
> Maybe it’s supposed to run off the floppy and messing around with file
> locations broke things?  I figured this was something I could try, so
> I deleted the SPECTRUM-TX stuff off the hard disk and tried installing
> again, but WSETUP.EXE crashes now.  I guess the Windows installation
> is balled up, but I don’t have the time to reinstall it and start
> over again tonight.
>
> Maybe it actually only works with an AT-GPIB card?
>
> Maybe there’s a delay loop which no longer works, because it runs 10x
> faster than it’s supposed to?
>
>   -- Ian
>
>
> Martin Olsson writes:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I bought a Fluke 9110FT setup and with that setup came the SPECTRUM-TX
> diskettes which I now have imaged and uploaded to the
> "/TTL/Test_Equipment/Fluke/9100 Series" folder on John's FTP site.
> >
> > Inside the ZIP archive is a ReadMe with more details about the images
> etc. I haven't tested the images myself but I think they should probably
> work as the original diskettes was error free.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> >
> > /Martin!
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