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(07-09-2025, 03:53 PM)robespierre Wrote:  It looks like there is a tact switch on the board (at N104)? That's pretty strange.

It's a reset switch. It's unusual indeed. There are some other things that don't make perfect sense:
  • The board was designed to work with the Professional IRIS backplane. It has a WD SCSI controller that maps to the same user-defined pins on the VME P3 connector as the IP4 does. It interfaces correctly with the control panel on the drive bay tower, the 7 segment LED works. The reset switch there works too. I haven't tried the DIP switches, but expect those work as well.
  • But it does not use the ribbon cable to connect to the keyboard / serial ports on the bulkhead, like IP4. You've got the same ports you'd find on the E-module of a 4D/25: keyboard, 2x serial, parallel and AUI (without retaining clip), but they're internal to the system

I don't really know how the graphics were supposed to work. There's an installation guide for the V30/V35 (a 6U VME set) on Bitsavers which indicates a ribbon cable was used to bus P2 from the CPU to the graphics, perhaps a similar mechanism was used here. Even if I had a TG-V20 graphics board I'd be reluctant to just hook that up. They probably made a 9U VME version of that too.
   
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Help identify this board! - by CB_HK - 06-25-2020, 07:58 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by jan-jaap - 06-25-2020, 09:15 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by CB_HK - 06-25-2020, 11:39 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by jan-jaap - 06-26-2020, 09:18 AM
RE: Help identify this board! - by CB_HK - 06-26-2020, 11:29 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by Happy - 07-08-2020, 01:26 AM
RE: Help identify this board! - by jan-jaap - 03-20-2021, 08:48 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by robespierre - 03-20-2021, 11:37 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by jan-jaap - 03-22-2021, 12:26 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by jpstewart - 03-22-2021, 11:42 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by jan-jaap - 03-26-2021, 11:20 AM
RE: Help identify this board! - by Irinikus - 03-26-2021, 04:24 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by jan-jaap - 07-09-2025, 09:42 AM
RE: Help identify this board! - by robespierre - 07-09-2025, 03:53 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by jan-jaap - 07-10-2025, 08:10 AM
RE: Help identify this board! - by robespierre - 07-10-2025, 05:03 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by weblacky - 07-09-2025, 07:34 PM
RE: Help identify this board! - by robespierre - 07-09-2025, 08:39 PM

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