On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 12:31 PM Paul Berger <phb.hfx@...> wrote:
The 16500A does not have a disk drive just the front and back diskette drives. I have a spare power supply taken from a working 16500A. I could also provide the parts to upgrade to a 16500C including a loaded disk for a reasonable fee. I am located in eastern Canada.
Paul.
If the 16500A power supply is dead an upgrade to a 16500C would
replace everything except for the internal chassis frame, top, bottom,
and side skin panels, the CRT, and the CPU board/power supply/module
backplane. You can't just swap the CPU boards.
In addition to replacing the 16500A CPU board with a 16500C CPU board,
you also need to replace the front and rear panels, the front floppy
drive and mounting bracket, the side fan/hard drive mounting bracket,
and all of the internal ribbon cables.
If you factor in the time it takes to strip all of the necessary parts
out of a donor 16500C and then strip the parts out of the recipient
16500A and reassemble it with the 16500C transplant parts you would
almost be better off paying the extra cost of shipping the entire
16500C. An exception might be when the shipping cost is crazy
expensive. A few years ago I stripped the necessary upgrade parts out
of a 16500C to ship to Alexandre in Brazil to upgrade a 16500A because
in that case the shipping cost was crazy expensive.
The 16500A or 16500B upgrade to 16500C kit was the E2497A. Here are
the instructions for doing the A->C or B->C upgrade:
/g/HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment/files/16xx%2016xxx%20Logic%20Analyzers%20Accesories//E2497A-16500-Upgrade.pdf
