Mike: I presume this is for the H-8-5 serial/cassette board? What is the part number on the board itself? There apparently were quite a few versions. I have a 85-2109-1 but there are also at least 85-2110-2 and 85-2110-3 (my 2110-2 board is on loan to Norberto and my 2110-3 is currently a bare board).
All of my manuals and scans have document number 595-2032, however the 595-2032 manual calls out part # 85-2026-1 for the circuit board so I may be able to get what you need from the parts list in this manual!? (I also have 595-2032-01 manual and that references circuit board part #85-2110-2 !!)
Let me know what board and what capacitor part numbers you’re trying to identify..
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My manual (the same one that lists the board part # as 85-2026-1) lists C101, C105 and C108 as “.047 uF Mylar” based on the assembly manual I believe these are the three green capacitors in the left quadrant of the board as seen in the picture you sent.
C107 can have two values depending on the desired speed for the tape interface: 300 BAUD and 1200 BAUD were the two supported options. For 300 BAUD C107 should be a 1000 pF (.001) polystyrene. For 1200 BAUD it should be 230 pF mica. The board has accommodations for either one since they have different dimensions… based on the picture you sent your board has the 230 pF mica cap (since Heath tapes were recorded at 1200 BAUD this is how the board is recommended to be assembled in the manual, however I guess some other Kansas City tapes were at 300 ?? so I guess they allowed for this option…)
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We have two or more variations of the H8-5 board. Do we have the schematics for all these variations? Or just the one in Les web page?
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I have pieces of the puzzle but may not have enough to paint the full picture.
I have two schematics labelled 595-2032 and 595-2032-01. I also have the accompanying manuals with the same numbers. The ‘01’ version is what’s on Les’ site https://sebhc.github.io/sebhc/documentation/hardware/H8/H8-5_AO_Ib_Sc.zip
The 2032 manual parts list shows the board as part number 85-2026-1. The 2032-01 shows part number 85-2110-2.
There are subtle differences in the parts lists. For example, the board Mike is working on appears to be the earlier design which uses .047 caps at C101, C105 and C108. The later design uses a .1uF mylar cap at C105 and C108.
I don’t have any documentation that references the 85-2109 board in the parts list but I note that it has the 03-16-77 date silkscreened on it and the “2109” appears to be painted over a previous number (probably 2026? Since 2026 also has the 3/16/77 date). Perhaps they just renumbered the board and 2109 and 2026 are essentially the same ?? then 2109 would be the “first generation” and 2110 the “second generation” of the board?
If its important it would be possible to do a detailed comparison of the parts lists and/or schematics to determine the differences…
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There are some additional differences. I see additional jumpers on the older board. Also on side 2 there are some blue cables on the older board.
Attached is a picture, so that you can compare and check.
Norberto
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Yes. been there a while due to hi price. But I hadn’t noticed that it was a 2110-3 (with a 1979 date on the board) so Heath when through a lot of engineering changes to this product!
For fun I looked through the catalogs on Mark’s site and the H-8-5 was still available for sale in early 1983 (catalog #860). By then it was marked down to $69… the H8 kit was listed but in the price field said “NO LONGER AVAILBLE”.
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Here’s my pic of the 2110-3 board
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wQxjMyjckBNf3dAHA
this one had been somewhat cannibalized by the previous owner so at some point I de-soldered the parts to have a clean board.
Let me know if you spot any differences with the previous designs..
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I have an assembled 2110-3 board and I have two jumpers in those 5 holes. Here are front and back pics.
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Thanks!
I wonder what are the "J" "J" jumpers!!! I did not see on the schematics or did I miss them???
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Here’s my pic of the 2110-3 board
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wQxjMyjckBNf3dAHA
this one had been somewhat cannibalized by the previous owner so at some point I de-soldered the parts to have a clean board.
Let me know if you spot any differences with the previous designs..
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The H8-5 circuit is fast when compared with the H89-5 card. So, I was impressed with the performance at such baud rate. The H8-5 it is a very well design board and I'm happy that I was able to clone it. I wonder what are the differences between -2 and -3.
As you have a bare -3 board, can you take a picture to scan the parts for possible improvements for the new H8-Z5-4 board?
Future improvements for the new H8-Z5-4 card:
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Yes. been there a while due to hi price. But I hadn’t noticed that it was a 2110-3 (with a 1979 date on the board) so Heath when through a lot of engineering changes to this product!
For fun I looked through the catalogs on Mark’s site and the H-8-5 was still available for sale in early 1983 (catalog #860). By then it was marked down to $69… the H8 kit was listed but in the price field said “NO LONGER AVAILBLE”.
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Glenn,
There is a Heathkit H-8 Serial I/0 Card 85-2110-3 Brand New in ebay..
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I think they ship from Thailand? But I've mostly had pretty quick response...
Definitely cheap. Good way to stock up on passive components...
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I ordered my caps from Tayda Electronics (https://www.taydaelectronics.com/).
They have a lot of parts at very low prices.
For 230pf: (they are expensive and they also have the 1% cap still more expensive).
Eventually we could replace it with newer cheaper parts.
Thanks,
Norberto
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>>> My manual (the same one that lists the board part # as 85-2026-1) lists C101, C105 and C108 as “.047 uF Mylar” based on the assembly manual I believe these are the three green capacitors in the left quadrant of the board as seen in the picture you sent. C107 can have two values depending on the desired speed for the tape interface: 300 BAUD and 1200 BAUD were the two supported options. For 300 BAUD C107 should be a 1000 pF (.001) polystyrene. For 1200 BAUD it should be 230 pF mica.
Perfect, thank you.
>>> other Kansas City tapes were at 300
The true Kansas City Standard was 300 baud only; the CUTS variant used by the H8 allowed 1200 baud. I don't recall the different implementations being very compatible, and I never did get the Interface Age floppy ROM to load.
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My manual (the same one that lists the board part # as 85-2026-1) lists C101, C105 and C108 as “.047 uF Mylar” based on the assembly manual I believe these are the three green capacitors in the left quadrant of the board as seen in the picture you sent.
C107 can have two values depending on the desired speed for the tape interface: 300 BAUD and 1200 BAUD were the two supported options. For 300 BAUD C107 should be a 1000 pF (.001) polystyrene. For 1200 BAUD it should be 230 pF mica. The board has accommodations for either one since they have different dimensions… based on the picture you sent your board has the 230 pF mica cap (since Heath tapes were recorded at 1200 BAUD this is how the board is recommended to be assembled in the manual, however I guess some other Kansas City tapes were at 300 ?? so I guess they allowed for this option…)
- Glenn
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On the front, the board is labeled '85-2026-1' with '031677' in small type below it. Nothing else other than "Serial I/O" at the top. On the back, it is labeled '85-2026'.
Only one of the four capacitors I'm interested in has a component number: C107 (which *might* read 230+/-5% 500V). The other three suspect caps have '047' silkscreened on the board even though those values don't track with the 595-2032 schematic.
On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:17:36 AM UTC-7 Glenn wrote:
Mike: I presume this is for the H-8-5 serial/cassette board? What is the part number on the board itself? There apparently were quite a few versions. I have a 85-2109-1 but there are also at least 85-2110-2 and 85-2110-3 (my 2110-2 board is on loan to Norberto and my 2110-3 is currently a bare board).
All of my manuals and scans have document number 595-2032, however the 595-2032 manual calls out part # 85-2026-1 for the circuit board so I may be able to get what you need from the parts list in this manual!? (I also have 595-2032-01 manual and that references circuit board part #85-2110-2 !!)
Let me know what board and what capacitor part numbers you’re trying to identify..
- Glenn
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I got the Hakko desoldering gun and replaced all the tin motherboard headers with gold plated ones: that seems to have fixed the DG-32D memory card issue I wrote about back in mid-July.
But...of course I now I'm working another issue. I'm reasonably sure I've tracked that down to a couple of bad capacitors on the front panel board.
In a case of while I'm at it, I decided to replace all the electrolytics, mylar, and tantalums I haven't already replaced. When I got to the serial card, I couldn't read some of the values on the existing parts. Turning to the manual for those values, I realized that the available scanned manual is for the 595-2032 of the card and I have the 85-2026 version. Most of the capacitors I want to replace on my card don't track in value to what is specified in the 2032 schematic or manual.
Does anyone have the 85-2026 manual scanned? I've looked for it, only finding the 2032 version.
Thanks,
mike.
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I decided to try and replicate Joe Travis’ clever use of the Sparkfun USB/serial breakout board for loading H8T files. I chose to build a little daughterboard (which we could fabricate as a small PCB if there was sufficient interest):
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I *was* able to replicate Joe’s results. I can load Extended BH Basic version 6 in just 13 seconds (at 9600 BAUD). This is with an 8080 CPU at 2.048 Mhz. For reasons I don’t understand when I use a Z80 board (Rev 2.6 board at 2.048 Mhz) I have to insert a 2ms delay after each byte. Without that the loads do not succeed (presumably dropped bytes). This of course means that downloads are slower with the Z80! (28 seconds for EXBASIC6). I installed my old speed board in the system so that I can adjust CPU speed via the front panel keypad. With the Z80 at 4Mhz I get essentially the same result as the 8080 – EXBASIC6 loads in 13 seconds (no character waits needed). I have been unable to load anything at higher speeds (8 and 10 Mhz). I haven’t had time to explore why that is. Also I see front panel display issues at 10 Mhz, which is odd as this is the new front panel. Perhaps I have a jumper set wrong…
Norberto has suggested using the H8-5 as a storage backup system. Given the rates I’m seeing (937 Bytes/sec.) it would seem possible to load or unload an entire H17 disk in under 2 minutes. It would take longer than that to restore a disk (you’d presumably read a track at a time from the H8-5 and write it, repeating that process 40 times, similar to the H89LDR program).
I don’t think I’ve seen the new H8-5 board show up on Todd’s list yet (?), but when it becomes available I plan to build one out and experiment some more…
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I tested the new H8-Z5-4 board at 2/4/8/10 MHz with the new front panel without any issues.
Because the clock is fixed, having the CPU clock at 2/4/8/10 MHz and baud rate at 9600bps, it takes 28 seconds to download EXTBASIC6 into the H8 memory.
At 1200bps and at CPU clock at 2/4/8/10 MHz, it took 1 minute and 44 seconds to download same file.
Also had to insert the 2ms delay to avoid failures during the download. This is expected as the CPU is interrupted every 2ms as well.
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The Z80 has more overhead when compared to the 8080A, such as wait states automatically inserted + the Dynamic RAM refresh cycles. The 8080A will give you best performance at 2MHZ.
To get 12 seconds or less on the new H8-Z5-4 board, I will need to drive the 8251A clock to 4 or 6 MHz. I do not see the need to do so, as we want a very stable design per specs.
I tested uploading from the cassette tape to the H8 memory at 10MHz and it worked fine on the new H8-Z5-4 board. It doesn’t get better than this.
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