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| rastro:
Thanks for touching base with me. I went to the sight and downloaded the CLIPs. I appreciate you scanning & posting those documents. It sounds like other people where looking for them as well. Yes I'm still looking for a copy of the software disk. I'm glad you located one. Have you been able to run it? It may be in the old HP format but you may be able to do save it to a file using a "DD" Unit/Linux copy command. It may also might use HP basic to implement the test/alignment drivers? If that is the case a pint out of the basic program might be useful. Regards Rastro |
| matthuszagh:
Hi Rastro, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I'm just now trying to read these. Unfortunately no luck so far. The data is on MEMOREX 2S/2D Microdisk double sided 135 TPI floppies. I tried loading them into my Sony MSFD-20U USB floppy reader, but I just see errors (in Linux) such as the following: [3679302.661485] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdf] Unit Not Ready [3679302.661489] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [3679302.661490] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdf] Add. Sense: Cannot read medium - unknown format [3679302.709487] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdf] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [3679302.709490] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [3679302.709491] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdf] Add. Sense: Cannot read medium - unknown format [3679302.725501] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is on [3679302.725502] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 46 00 80 No luck with dd either, but not so surprising given the error: dd if=/dev/sdf of=hp_85685a_disk_1.disk status=progress I don't know anything about floppies. If you have any ideas let me know. I have an old HP 382 computer, but unfortunately the floppy drive on it has never worked. But, if I am able to get the programs off the disk I should be able to use that to get the source code, I think. I've also posted here: https://groups.io/g/VintHPcom/topic/how_to_read_a_memorex_2s_2d/96348357. |
| matthuszagh:
I just uploaded all the software (https://archive.org/details/hp85685a_software). This contains the disk images, program binaries, and the source files, which I retrieved by LOADing and SAVEing on an HP 382 controller. FYI I may, at some point, look into modifying this software to work with other instruments as I don't have all the units required for the calibration. I'll post an update if I get a chance to work on that and make any progress. |
| KE5FX:
Yep, it seems to call out a massive number of different instruments, up to and including an 8753A VNA. Even if it proves impractical to execute the programs directly, though, knowledge of what GPIB commands are issued by the HP test software will likely come in handy. Not all of that info appears to be documented in the manual. |
| rastro:
matthuszagh, I really appreciate you posting the disk files. It looks like you put in quite a bit of work to get different duplicate file types of the disks along with extracting the BASIC programs. I agree with KE5FX that having the programs using the GPIB commands if a big help. Thanks Again, rastro |
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