Re: What kind of chip is this?
I can't find anything more about this HP83036C. I just dug up a paper manual I have for HP85027A/B/C - I have one of these directional bridges from long ago, but I think it's shot, so I never actually
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ed breya
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#150090
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Re: What kind of chip is this?
I have done some measurements, see attachment. The beast is highly directive, at the same time it has very low loss.
It is similar to the HP83036C directional detector. Compared to a normal diode
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tom_iphi
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#150089
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Re: HP dual floppy drive ( 9122 or 9121) and hp 9153 Winchester included floppy drive repair
The insert-eject may have dried grease that needs to be removed and re-lubed, but it is usually the lead screw that has dried out grease. The hard grease causes the head to continually seek the start
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gk5220@...
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#150088
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Re: Test Set Program Development Tool DEV_PL on 3.5" floppy
Yes, Spinrite is good. I used it heavily in the 1980s and early 1990s, and we use it from time to time at LSSM.
However, one important thing to consider is the disk format. I choose that word
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Dave McGuire
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#150087
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Re: HP dual floppy drive ( 9122 or 9121) and hp 9153 Winchester included floppy drive repair
Hi Bill,
It depends on the problem(s) with the drives. They are all probably Sony drives, and a common failure in them is that the grease on the insert/eject mechanism solidifies so that the floppies
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Stan
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#150086
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Re: 8643A Will not power-up
Only one of them, NFS40-7624 (single output 24VDC) - this is the one closest to the IEC receptacle, and IIRC the easiest to access.
If yours has the same power supplies as my unit, I have a list of
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fenugrec
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#150085
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Re: What kind of chip is this?
From functional/performance point of view it must be similar to the HP83036C:
It is quite small and low loss, still directive. Anybody knows what's inside this?
Tom
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tom_iphi
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#150084
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Re: What kind of chip is this?
From the levels in the block diagram I suspect that the device has at most 1dB loss, thus no passive bridge circuit. So, I guess it is basically a rectifier. It could be a coupler, but for the
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tom_iphi
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#150083
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Re: Test Set Program Development Tool DEV_PL on 3.5" floppy
Indeed Spinrite is a disc scanning and (where physically possible, that is, the disk is not beyond use due to physical damage to it's surface etc) an error recovery tool.? (I have my own licenced
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Dave_G0WBX
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#150082
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Re: HP dual floppy drive ( 9122 or 9121) and hp 9153 Winchester included floppy drive repair
Unless you want to stay true to the old stuff, then an alternative is to use an emulator such as HPDrive or HPDisk if the drives are flaky.
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Anders
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#150081
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Re: 5345A electronic counter *restoration adventure*
> Hi Wolfgang Schraml,
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> From one very happy HP 3545A owner, thank you very much for your detailed
> post.
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> Kind regards,
> Terry ZL1NOW
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>
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Terry Gains
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#150080
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Re: 5345A electronic counter *restoration adventure*
Hi *Wolfgang Schraml,*
From one very happy HP 3545A owner, thank you very much for your detailed
post.
Kind regards,
Terry ZL1NOW <https://www.qrz.com/db/ZL1NOW>
Kind
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Terry Gains
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#150079
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Re: HP 8670B amplifier - does it ring a bell with anyone?
I'm pretty sure it's real. Does it show up in any catalogs of that era? There's many free PDF hp test equipment catalogs online.
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VE6WMR
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#150078
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HP 8670B amplifier - does it ring a bell with anyone?
Subject line says it all - expected coverage is 2-18 GHz but no other data can be found.
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David Feldman
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#150077
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Re: Test Set Program Development Tool DEV_PL on 3.5" floppy
Sending it to someone that can do the work is probably the best idea.
My way of dealing with old diskettes is having old PCs running DOS and early windows and older linux that have 3.5, 5 1/4 and 8"
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tgerbic
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#150076
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Re: Test Set Program Development Tool DEV_PL on 3.5" floppy
Second that. Off to McGuire with it.
Do NOT mess around with these disks with a Windows or Linux workstation.
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With best regards
Tam HANNA
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Tam Hanna
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#150075
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Re: Test Set Program Development Tool DEV_PL on 3.5" floppy
Yup. Got it. Thanks.
DaveD
KC0WJN
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Dave Daniel
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#150074
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Re: What kind of chip is this?
Probably a custom designed part ?
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Wilko Bulte
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#150073
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Re: Test Set Program Development Tool DEV_PL on 3.5" floppy
To the best of my knowledge, this is the only time this particular piece of software has shown up. Now is not the time to be experimenting.
Spinrite is a surface scanning program, not a program
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Dave McGuire
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#150072
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Re: Test Set Program Development Tool DEV_PL on 3.5" floppy
I'd try and get hold of a parallel floppy.drive and if still no joy try and
use an old.tool called spinrite on it back in the day I had success
recovering data from floppy drives when all was lost.
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Paul Carrington
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#150071
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