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ortek_service · 5th May 2021, 11:03 pm

I think the Holy Grail is now a scan of the Softy-2 Manual - as the only ones I've seen have been pictured with a past sale of a S2.

(The only Dataman product listed by Cambridge-CfCH is the Menta, and they don't show any actual documents for it - But that doesn't have a DIN connector, even though casing covers were apparently the same. I don't recall seeing any Dataman products, going round Bletchey-TNMoC either - Just Mk14's etc.)

Hopefully, the manual might give some connector pinout details - even if this version was now only sold ready-built. (The later S3 manual only had a Block Diagram, although quite detailed with details of all the signals & Algorithm parameters. But I saw in the ad that you had to pay £150? at the time, to get the full S3 Software Development Kit Reference manual with schematics & firmware source code etc.)

5th May 2021, 11:03 pm	#35
ortek_service Octode Join Date: May 2018 Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire, UK. Posts: 1,440	Re: Early EPROM programmer. I think the Holy Grail is now a scan of the Softy-2 Manual - as the only ones I've seen have been pictured with a past sale of a S2. (The only Dataman product listed by Cambridge-CfCH is the Menta, and they don't show any actual documents for it - But that doesn't have a DIN connector, even though casing covers were apparently the same. I don't recall seeing any Dataman products, going round Bletchey-TNMoC either - Just Mk14's etc.) Hopefully, the manual might give some connector pinout details - even if this version was now only sold ready-built. (The later S3 manual only had a Block Diagram, although quite detailed with details of all the signals & Algorithm parameters. But I saw in the ad that you had to pay £150? at the time, to get the full S3 Software Development Kit Reference manual with schematics & firmware source code etc.)