[vcf-midatlantic] Working Tandy 1000 or 2000

[Jonathan Gevaryahu]

The problem is I've found that the parts lists in some of the Tandy 
manuals is incorrect.

On 8/29/2018 10:11 PM, Kelly Leavitt wrote:
>
> OK, sorry I got that backward. I have an SX apart on the bench for 
> some testing. I cannot find any chip with either part number. It is 
> either hiding under a Tandy house number or part of the 2 big (for the 
> time) ASICs. I'm pulling up the technical reference manual now.
>
>
> OK, according to the parts list on P51, U37A is an SN76496 Tone 
> Generator. That agrees with page 7 of the schematic.
>
>
> I've attached screen grabs of these if they don't get stripped.
>
>
> You can find the tech ref for the 1000sx at 
> ftp://ftp.mindcandydvd.com/pub/drivers/Tandy/Tandy_1000SX_Technical_Reference_Manual.pdf
>
>
> I'll verify the part number of IC U37A tomorrow.
>
>
>
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> *From:* Jonathan Gevaryahu <jgevaryahu at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:18 PM
> *To:* Kelly Leavitt; vcf-midatlantic
> *Subject:* Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Working Tandy 1000 or 2000
> The TI chip is fairly well understood; the original Tandy 1000/1000HD, 
> and the slightly enhanced 1000A used the 'real' TI chip, SN76496, for 
> certain.
> Its possible that the EX (and maybe HX?) also used it, but unclear.
>
> The SX and TX (and maybe the HX?) SUPPOSEDLY used the weird NCR8496 
> chip, which is what I need tested. (assuming wikipedia is correct, 
> which it actually isn't regarding the SN76496 on the Tandy 1000/1000A...)
> The SL2, TL2, RLX, RSX use the PSSJ-3 ASIC, which would also be ok for 
> testing, but ideally I'd like to run these tests on both the NCR8496 
> and the PSSJ-3.
>
>
> On 8/29/2018 8:36 AM, Kelly Leavitt wrote:
>>
>> I have manyof the 1000 series computers (hx, ex, sx, sl, sl2, tl, 
>> etc). Do you know which used the wonky TI chip? I can always start 
>> opening them up.
>>
>>
>>
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>> *From:* Jonathan Gevaryahu <jgevaryahu at gmail.com> 
>> <mailto:jgevaryahu at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:55 AM
>> *To:* Kelly Leavitt; vcf-midatlantic
>> *Subject:* Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Working Tandy 1000 or 2000
>> Another thing: I need to test against a tandy 1000-series with an 
>> NCR8496 or PSSJ-1 asic in it, i.e. not the original tandy 
>> 1000/1000a/1000hd, since they actually use a real TI SN76496 PSG 
>> which actually behaves differently! (that's the whole reason I need 
>> to do these tests, the behavior isn't consistent!)
>>
>>
>> On 8/29/2018 12:53 AM, Jonathan Gevaryahu wrote:
>>> Indeed, I was thinking of the 1000 series, not the 2000.
>>> I'm trying to figure the best way to run the tests from basic, i 
>>> might need to mess around with dosbox to get the program written, 
>>> since MAME has keyboard issues with the tandy machines (which I'd 
>>> also love to fix...)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/28/2018 8:45 PM, Kelly Leavitt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The 2000 and the 1000 were remarkably different beasts. The 2000 
>>>> had a basic speaker that did beeps. There was a rumored TV board 
>>>> but I have never seen one in the wild. Fun tidbit, the 2000 loaded 
>>>> BIOS from floppy (a 720k 5.25 inch floppy). The built in ROM was a 
>>>> simple boot loader.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The 1000 was mostly compatible with the XT/jr with some added sound 
>>>> and graphics capabilities.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have working models of the 1000 hear that I cant test with 
>>>> Tandy's Basica if you'd like. My 2000's are iffy so I can't make 
>>>> any promises. Send me the pokes you'd like to try.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kelly
>>>>
>>>> kelly at catcorner.org <mailto:kelly at catcorner.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> <mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces at lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of 
>>>> Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic 
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>>>> *Cc:* Jonathan Gevaryahu
>>>> *Subject:* [vcf-midatlantic] Working Tandy 1000 or 2000
>>>> Does VCF have a working Tandy 1000 or 2000 on display or in the 
>>>> warehouse?
>>>>
>>>> I need someone with access to a working Tandy 1000/2000 to do some
>>>> poking from basic of the sound chip, since there's an issue I'm 
>>>> running
>>>> into with a possible incompatibility of the Tandy 1000/2000 NCR8496 
>>>> PSG
>>>> (sound chip) and the more common SN76489/SN76496 PSG which the
>>>> colecovision etc used.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jonathan Gevaryahu
>>>> jgevaryahu at gmail.com <mailto:jgevaryahu at gmail.com>
>>>> jgevaryahu at hotmail.com <mailto:jgevaryahu at hotmail.com>
>>>>
>>>
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>>> Jonathan Gevaryahu
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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan Gevaryahu
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>
>
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> Jonathan Gevaryahu
> jgevaryahu at gmail.com  <mailto:jgevaryahu at gmail.com>
> jgevaryahu at hotmail.com  <mailto:jgevaryahu at hotmail.com>


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