[Techtoolslist] 3870 adapter pod for use with 6800 pod

[John Robertson]

On 2019/03/27 1:07 p.m., Brad Gass wrote:
> John / all - the JED files appear to be generated from OrCAD PAL, so my guess is that the schematic was also done in an old version of OrCAD (probably SDT).  I honestly don't know if they would open in more modern versions, and even if they did, if they require any custom component libraries it may be a dead end.  Even so, I didn't see a board layout file in there...
>
> I have a copy of the OrCAD suite from that era somewhere that may open the schematics (library issues not withstanding), but I couldn't say whether the floppies would still read or not (Kryoflux might be my friend there), and am not sure if it's a hardware keyed version or not (we had both keyed and unkeyed versions in college when I was an instructor - they used Rainbow parallel port keys IIRC).
>
> It would probably be easier to simply manually re-draw the PCB using the PNG files for reference.  Any of the free layout tools should make that fairly straightforward to do - how much interest is there in a replica?

Thanks Brad, that might help someone pursue this. I am somewhat 
interested but have enough projects for the moment. I too was thinking 
the images will make it fairly easy to build the schematics, etc.

I also moved the directory into the /FlukePodAdapters directory as was 
suggested by Tony (thanks!) and removed a bunch of spaces in various 
file names to make it easier on my FTP program:

ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org/TTL/Test_Equipment/Fluke/9XXX%20Pods/FlukePodAdapters/

John :-#)#

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Robertson" <jrr at flippers.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:54:57 PM
> Subject: [Techtoolslist] 3870 adapter pod for use with 6800 pod
>
> I can't believe it - I have had these files (Thanks to Shy!) since 2013
> and only now realized I never put them up on TTL.
>
> This package from Shy (Navatek) has schematics (unknown format) pictures
> of the board layout and wiring, PALtoGAL 16V8 code and more...
>
> Look for it here if you want to make the adapter PCB:
>
> ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org/TTL/Test_Equipment/Fluke/9XXX%20Pods/FlukePodAdapters/ (fixed link)
>
> I'd buy a board if anyone ever figures it out...
>
> John :-#)#
>

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