[Techtoolslist] Fluke 68000 pod version 6 firmware

[Tony Jones]

I acquired a 68000 pod running V6 firmware and dumped the EPROMS.
John kindly uploaded them to
ftp://ftp.arcadetech.org/TTL/Test_Equipment/Fluke/9XXX%20Pods/68000pod/Fluke-9000A-68000_V6_ROM/

I was able to upgrade an another 68000 pod (rev B processor board
running V5) to V6 using the data.     Swapping the EPROMS (and
sockets) from 2732 to 2764 is all that was required.

I thought I had seen a scanned copy of the Rev B manual online (which
documents the additional QT functionality in V6 -- the copy on the ftp
site is Rev 1 for V2 thru V5) but I can't seem to find it.  Possible
I'm mis-remembering.   If I find it I'll have John upload it,  else
I'll scan in my original copy.

I hope this is useful to someone.

Thanks!

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Tony Jones <tony at tonyjones.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> I need to dig deeper into the schematics to see how this is
> implemented on the hw (and what the upgrade path is).  The three 68000
> pods I have at present, all have the pads present for the larger 28
> pin sockets (on their cpu boards) but only a 24 pin socket installed.
>  The cpu board part# and the U9 PAL part# are the same in both
> versions of the manual,  only the EPROM part#'s differ which is
> curious as obviously the pin addressing differs between a 2732 and
> 2764.
>
> Tony