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Electronics projects, vintæg computing, programming and repairs. A minimalist blog of sorts.
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Does anyone know what computer system this is for?
I scored this 68060 VME system for 20 bucks at a junkyard recently. Time to play around with it.
The main system board
It's a SYS68K/CPU-60 board. 68060 @ 50 MHz, with 32 Mb DRAM and 2 Mb SRAM, on board network, SCSI, and two serial ports
204077_CPU-60_Technical_Reference_Jun99.pdf
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The full reference manual is available online
The serial ports can be configured as either RS-232, 422 or 485, using these daughter boards and DIP switches. I had naively assumed both ports are 232 and somehow fried one of my 232 to USB converters. Better RTFM first.
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Anyhow, I had trouble getting anything out of the 232 port, it gets stuck in a boot loop and never makes any sign of life on serial. This needs hardware handshake and I even probed RTS and CTS with the scope to make sure my USB converter does support hardware handshakes
Whatever boots on there just doesn't chatter on serial. However, these things have quite the capable debug console that you can activate by triggering reset while asserting abort
Success!
The debug console features a disassembler, an assembler, can load binary data from the network using TFTP, and even dump the contents of memory to a TFTP server
And that's where I got stuck for today: trying to get atftpd running on modern Linux. Something is broken.