On 11/12/2015 10:01 AM, Andrew Welburn wrote:
On 12/11/2015 08:45, Tony Jones wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Andrew Welburn <andy@andysarcade.net> wrote:
A 9105 is just a 9100 without the hard disk + controller, plus an extra floppy drive.
I'm assuming the SCSI controller is a card, is a custom design and is unobtainium like the video card.
Yep you got it :) there's two types, the first SCSI standard (1.0?) fitted to the 9100A and the later (2.0?) SCSI card from the 9100FT. I'm not sure if the later (faster) card works in the 9100A or not.
The 9100 does not come with a video card as standard, it was optional, so most 9100's you see cannot edit.
Is a 9105 plus video card a possible config? Which would allow editing?
Thanks
I don't know if you could do that, i'm fairly sure the editor or OS would probably kick up a complaint about not seeing a HD to work from. Heck, the thing wont launch into the editing suite without the correct keyboard attached, so go figure. It could be fairly painful to get it to boot up and run the editor first, then you'd probably have to keep swapping disks in and out for all the different functions.
Knowing Fluke, i'd hazard a guess that they wouldn't even allow that sort of craziness to happen.
I used my Fluke 9100A from the front panel for 6 years before i found a videocard. I found a keyboard at about the same time, and then i was off and editing. I finally got a 9100FT and editing is now actually easy and fun to do. The 9100A is - lets be honest here - really fucking slow and painful to edit on, but i wrote all my stuff in a 10 year period with that achingly slow typematic rate and ancient disk access controller setup. Once you get an FT, its like night and day, but i soldiered on the old way in the absence of anything else :)
enjoy
Andrew Welburn http://www.andys-arcade.com
Along with what Andy said, he has a great support page on the 9100 on his domain: http://www.andys-arcade.com/personal/tech/fluke9100/index.htm A most excellent resource! Also look up chatter on the mail list about replacing the hard drive with solid state units using two different SCSI to Flash memory card adapters. Lastly - I am pretty sure that a video card for the 9100 would not be beyond someone here redesigning and selling to the list - I already have a couple (9100 and 9100FT versions). There is also an adapter design to enable folks to use the old PC keyboard on the 9100 video card. I wish I had the time to get more involved with this stuff, it is fun! I have a small pile of 9100s (four or five at least) that need just a minimum of TLC to get running (like a couple of hours at the most each), and I would love to see about speeding them up by replacing the original 68000 CPU with something like the 68020 upgrades that were available years ago. I do have two odd cards that have 68010s (AIR) on them that I haven't figured out quite what they do - these appear to be some sort of upgrade for the 9100. My problem is time, there isn't enough for all my projects! John :-#)# -- How to subscribe or unsubscribe from TTL http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist