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Re: [Techtoolslist] FS: More 9100A items
by James Bright 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

As a professional .NET developer... I can tell you it ain't pretty. I did it in VB6 (which I had to "learn" because I hate VB) because at the time there weren't any great serial APIs for .NET. That's probably not true anymore. I did start on a 9100A version of FIDE (because I find the 9100A soooo much slower than I can actually type) but that was about the time that my second child came along so I didn't have much time to devote to that. Besides that 9010A is a lot more approachable for anyone beginning to troubleshoot. How are you making out on the 9100A? There is a lot of potential there. I could "shotgun" a board a lot more quickly with the 9010, but the 9100 would be more thorough if you have the time to invest. The thought did occur to me to sell my bench 9100... then I booted it up tonight and went into editor mode and reminded myself how cool a little test machine it was :-) JB ---------------------------------------- From: martin(a)guddler.co.uk Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:25 PM To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist(a)flippers.com> Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] FS: More 9100A items > P.S. I am thinking of opening up FIDE as open source. Thoughts? Of course > it's written in crappy VB6. I'd certainly be interested in taking a look! A few years ago I'd have offered to take it on and bring it up to .NET, and maintain it etc. but I'm not sure I'd ever get round to it these days since I'm now using the 9100 so haven't really used FIDE in ages. If there was enough interest then I could look at porting it to RealBasic and doing a Mac version but I doubt there's enough interest out there to warrant it and I'd also have to borrow a 9010 in order to test the results really. Martin. _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/TestEquipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/ _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/TestEquipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/

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FS: More 9100A items
by James Bright 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Going through items that I know I'm not going to get to for quite some time... I have 3 9100As, all not working. Parts machine, although I am certain that you could get one working if you replaced the HDD. It had been working for me previously, although now it has self test issues. One of the 9100As is a dual disk version so it's really just good for spare memory and what not. Let's say $100 for the lot. Problem is shipping is going to be very, very expense as these suckers are heavy. But I'd rather offer them up to the community first. So if you want this for $100 + actual shipping, let me know. I'd rather not break it up. I also have a spare -003 module for the 9100A. See http://www.quarterarcade.com/game.aspx/8756 . I'll probably list it on my ebay store for $150, but if anyone here wants it, $125 + $10 shipping. I know that it says that it doesn't include any clips, but I am positive I can include some clips (if not a whole set, a partial set). Let me know if you are specifically looking for a 9100A part. I may have it. A few years ago I was buying this stuff in large lots. Thanks. (Someone should plot the correlation between 0 kids & # boards fixed to 3 kids & # boards fixed...) JB P.S. I am thinking of opening up FIDE as open source. Thoughts? Of course it's written in crappy VB6. _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/TestEquipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/

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FS: Fluke 9100A -003 I/O module
by James Bright 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

John, LMK if this is getting annoying! :-) Most of my excess stuff is going to ebay but there are a few specialty items that I figured people might want to contact me directly for. I have a spare 9100A -003 I/O module. $100 paypal plus ... figure $8 shipping in the U.S. This would be just the I/O unit, not clips. Clean unit, sitting on my shelf for a few years. I have not used it recently. Thanks! JB ---------------------------------------- From: "James Bright" <james(a)quarterarcade.com> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 1:43 PM To: techtoolslist(a)flippers.com Subject: FS: Fluke 9100A video card Figured I'd list it here first before it goes to ebay. Finally getting around to taking pictures of stuff. http://www.quarterarcade.com/game.aspx/8751 $50 plus $8 shipping (US). As-is untested (but there is no reason to believe it doesn't work). Paypal. Thanks! JB _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/TestEquipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/

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FS: Fluke 9100A video card
by James Bright 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Figured I'd list it here first before it goes to ebay. Finally getting around to taking pictures of stuff. http://www.quarterarcade.com/game.aspx/8751 $50 plus $8 shipping (US). As-is untested (but there is no reason to believe it doesn't work). Paypal. Thanks! JB _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/TestEquipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/

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Atari 6502A NOP adapter
by kevin spears 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

This is surely a dumb question, but what is the purpose of the NOP adapter? _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/TestEquipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/

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Uploaded new files
by John Robertson 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Hi, Have just uploaded a somewhat large (28mb) zipped file that is the 1986 Data I/O wall chart of Eprom/PROM programming info. John :-#)# -- How to subscribe or unsubscribe from TTL: http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/TestEquipment _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist(a)flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/TestEquipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/

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