• 05464 ASSY 36431 29D (8-pin RJ-style connector)
• 05464 ASSY 37494 01A (13-pin single row header)

I'm looking for documentation regarding the connectors and how the display area is driven.

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I'd like to identify the device this board came from, and perhaps locate the original schematic for the board.

The right side of the board has a silkscreened identifier of 445353, along with a stamped Revision number. What appears to be a date code appears above the right-most display, EO 9 74, perhaps indicating an Engineering (design) date of September 1974.

The silkscreened logo is for Leeds & Northrup, a Philadelphia-based manufacturer of precision measurement equipment.

Above the left-most (three-digit) display is A3A2 silkscreened on the corner.

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• Imaging Automation was bought by Viisage Technology, Inc. in October 2004.
• In August 2006, Viisage and Identix Incorporated merged to form L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc.
• Safran acquired L-1 Indentity Solutions in July 2011 and renamed it MorphoTrust.

Any technical documentation related to this device would be welcome.

409-9025
R1203-12
MEXICO
9450 A62748-3

There are 10 DIP switches and two connectors along one side and what appears to be five test points along the top. On the bottom side of the board is a 4 MHz crystal and a red pushbutton switch.

Other integrated circuits on the board:

• TL7705ACP supply voltage supervior
• 74HC14N hex inverting Schmitt trigger
• ULN2086 transistor array

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I need at least a replacement front glass piece and various pin connectors.

I'd also like to find a source for the chart paper.

I wrote to the Chrono-Log company and received this reply:

This instrument was last produced over 20 years ago. Your instrument was made in 1987. We no longer have instruction manuals available for these models.

Does anyone have a manual for this clock, and/or a pinout for the connector?

I'd also like to find an appropriate antenna for this unit.

I also have a Trimble GPS module, supposedly removed from a BMW automobile, part number 23197-62. It has a power connector with three leads (black, red, yellow), a 9-pin female DE connector and an antenna connector. I have no documentation on this module.

I'd like to find the protocol specification to command the GBR21.

American Satellite Corporation supplies a DES-based encryption device operating in the cipher block-chaining mode. The CryptoLine handles full-duplex serial synchronous data at rates to 56 kbps. A phase-lock-loop prevents loss of synchronization on links with delay problems. Because of its protocol transparency, the CryptoLine can provide security for digital voice, video and facsimile traffic, none of which has a protocol base. It provides two levels of security: a primary key, which is set and changed as often as desired by the user; and a second, resident key.

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From a 2001 web page:

The GS-700 is a complete hardware and software package that provides a simulation environment in which a GPS receiver can set time, decode navigation data, and obtain/maintain a dynamic navigation solution. The nominal package contains 4 RF L1 C/A channels with an upgrade capability to 6 channels per chassis. The GS700 is operated by a host computer via GPIB.iThe GS-700 is a complete hardware and software package that provides a simulation environment in which a GPS receiver can set time, decode navigation data, and obtain/maintain a dynamic navigation solution. The nominal package contains 4 RF L1 C/A channels with an upgrade capability to 6 channels per chassis. The GS700 is operated by a host computer via GPIB.

Apparently I need a copy of something called the "Voyager GUI" (Voyager Graphical User Interface) to control the simulator.

Does anyone have a copy of this software? I'd also be interested in operator (and service) manuals for the GS700 hardware.

(Motorola batwing logo)
ICD-ERR905
SC403758CFN
6A58P8850

It has a 16-pin ZIF socket for a REF (Reference) PROM and two additional ZIF sockets, one for PROGRAM and one for 8-BIT VERIFY.

The programmer panel has a five-bit address display and an eight-bit data display.

Does anyone have a copy of the operator (and service) manual for this device?

I set up the unit with the TrueTime antenna and let the unit sit for 24 hours in AUTO mode. It correctly identified my location and switched to TIME mode, however the reported time was not correct (it showed January 2029). Function 73 reported that the GPS was Unlocked and the status LED was red. The unit will keep whatever time I manually set it to, although it still never locks to GPS time.

So, I followed the work-around described in the Symmetricom service bulletin (local copy here) and set the year to 1996. I power-cycled the unit and after the restart it began reporting the correct time and lit the status LED green.

However, after some period of time the unit shows a red status LED and reports that the GPS is unlocked. It does appear to continue to report the correct time.

The unit I have reports TRUETIME XL sys ver 29 when starting up, with V1.046.

The second problem is that the unit's serial port output does not appear to follow the description in the manual (emulation mode is off). Instead of showing current time in ASCII format, I get a series of binary characters that do not have printable ASCII representations. Here's a sample:

F8 88 00 C0 80 08 40 00 20 40 00 8A 07 1C 90 60 
F8 46 01 40 C0 08 40 00 88 40 00 00 00 1E D0 60 
FA 08 C0 88 C0 08 40 45 88 40 80 88 04 1E D0 40 
F8 42 00 00 C0 08 40 00 8D 40 80 80 02 96 60 C0 
F8 42 00 40 80 05 40 80 88 40 00 01 00 0F 60 E0 
F8 03 01 00 00 88 40 00 20 00 00 00 88 0E D0 68 

Any clues on what I can do to correct the timekeeping error and the serial port problems?

Perhaps related, is there a firmware upgrade for this model that can be performed?

A manual for the XL-AK can be found here (local copy here).

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Does anyone have a pin-out for the output connector?

1. Saturn Systems, Inc., Accelerator II (datecode number 83-22 on the back)
2. Axlon 58-037006 Rev C (copyright 1981), "Designed by MOS Sorcery" on the back, along with ADL-1, 94V0
3. EPS, Inc., H3311-XXX-X Rev 0 IIE (copyright 1983), hardwired to a separate RJ-11 jack

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I'd like to find documentation for the connector and the method of control.

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I'm looking for some history on these cards and the machine they went into.

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Large connector to 10 RCA connectors plus a 9-pin female. Update: I received the following e-mail: I believe your Mystery cable is for the IBM M-Motion Adapter/A which was a board used for Analog Video overlay in an IBM MCA system.

9-pin connector to two Atari-game type connectors plus an RCA and another two-contact connector.

These first two devices are pretty straightforward, a decade resistance box and a capacitance box. They appear to be very well made, constructed out of bakelite or a very hard plastic.

Pardon my ignorance, but I'm not familiar with these next two types of boxes. Each has a pair of screw-type test points and a number of brass "plugs" that slide into holes along the row of holes. Each plug would appear to provide continuity from one hole to the next.

Any stories about what these might have been used for?

Update:

I received the following note from Tom Greenslade, a Professor Emeritus of Physics at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio:

The two pieces of apparatus at the bottom of the picture are resistance boxes. When the plug is out, the resistance appears; when the plug is in the resistance is zero.

Plug-type boxes are a pain in the neck to use -- you can work much faster with the dial-type boxes.

From the late 19th century to about 1940 to 1950 you could get plug-type boxes. Dial type boxes start to appear in the 1910 era.

You might want to look at my web site located at
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/index.html
which has pictures of a great deal of early apparatuss.

I e-mailed the company that took over the Autogen product line (stoeltingco.com) and received this response:

We no longer can provide information or parts on the old Autogen products. All of the manuals and obsolete parts were hauled to the dumpster four years ago.

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Update: I received additional information on these boards from a kind reader. Click on the link above to read his detailed response.

I've put up a page with several photos and a brief description, which can be seen by clicking here.

Any information relating to this board would be greatly appreciated.

I have three HP ROM drawers that appear to be for the 9835 desktop computer, two with four slots and one with six. The six-slot drawer is empty, but each of the four-slot drawers has a ROM in it labeled

98338A
ASSEMBLY
EXECUTION
1
HEWLETT
PACKARD

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Other than that, it's a neat little computer with a socketed ROM for easy updates.

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Update from a reader:

The Hewlett-Packard 82985A Video Interface is an interface box to connect a HP Portable Plus "laptop" computer to a composite monitor. It requires a HP Portable Plus with a special back door (with connector) and a special cable.

The copyright date on the bottom plate is 1982.

I don't have the power supply for it.

I'd like documentation for this thing, or at least to trade it for something I can use.

It has a full QWERTY keyboard and a single line LED display, along with a switchable "break-out box" to interconnect the data lines. It is AC powered and comes in a custom carrying case.

Although I have the instruction manual, I'd be interested in learning more about the company and other products they might have built.

Update: I received the following note:

Just saw your inquiry on the bytebug 625. I actually designed the unit in the early 80's. The unit was upgraded to a bytebug 645 that added T1/ISDN monitoring and Emulation. We sold the company to Tekelec in 1990 and they changed the name to the Chameleon 5. I just moved and threw out all of the old manuals as I was packing. I don't know anyone who supports this product anymore.

We sold about 500 of the 625's. We sold approx 1000 645's in the US and another 1000 in Japan and Europe. I don't know how many Tekelec sold. I'm glad to see that one of the original units is still alive.

Hope this helps.

Greg Tucker

I picked up this odd box at a thrift shop. It's about seven inches long by four inches wide and three inches high and has a single pushbutton mounted in the top center of the box.

A plate on the bottom shows a Model 1628 02 (whatever that is) with a serial number of 7302 and a frequency of B 47, but no manufacturer identification.

Inside the unit is a tuning coil and a trimmer capacitor feeding a loop antenna. It has a crystal stamped 27.045 and is powered by a pair of 9 volt batteries.

UPDATE

In January 2002 I received this e-mail:

That transmitter is a remote for a arcade game that hangs on a wall and accepts quarters or tokens. The game is made by Sega/Gremlin around the 70-80's era. There were a few different games that we had when I was working in the video game industry. One game was a baseball game which has numerous small incadescent light bulbs that would flash in strobe like fashion to simulate the batters swing, and to simulate the baseball flying when you hit the remote button from your barstool.

Does anyone have more technical information about this setup?

The sticker on the back says it's a model number 1000TR-05, part number 201722, and is stamped Jun 14 1982.

It is supposed to come with some kind of power supply that plugs into a jack at the top, right next to the modular line connector.

Any ideas on the specifications (voltage, polarity, amperage) for the external power connection?

Even better, does anyone have a manual for this thing?

Update: I received an e-mail with the following information:

The power supply is 15 VDC, 500 mA, sleeve positive.