During his career with ICL, Brian Parker progressed from being an ordinary support engineer into a very experienced diagnostician. He was the sort of man any team of engineers would send for when faced with a particularly obscure bug, when it was not clear whether the problem lay in hardware, software, or the interaction between them both. He became especially expert in the use of the logic analyser, a magnificent diagnostic tool for those who could apply it. This section of the archive records his notes of the years when he and the logic analyser flew around the world in response to many varied distress calls. It thus provides a useful overview of the problems that affected computer users during the period in question, and illustrates how they were overcome by hard work, methodology and brilliant technical insight.
Box number | Date | Contents |
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48/1 | OPD | |
48/2 | Printers (various printers and plotters) | |
48/3 | Small Printers ML82A/83A etc | |
48/4 | ML83A control program listing (on top of books) | |
48/5 | PBS Printer Specs & logics | |
48/6 | Laser Printers for Office Systems - Problem investigations | |
48/7 | M5 VIDEO investigations | |
48/8 | PSD 1866, M303 etc Specs | |
48/9 | M15 Terminal Notes etc incl Barron McCann +M15 logics | |
48/10 | OEM bits on Office Systems Specs. | |
48/11 | Rodime Fixed disc & Xebec disc controller Specs. | |
48/12 | Tandberg CMT Fault investigations | |
48/13 | Tandberg CMT & Emulex controller specs | |
48/14 | ICL PC Specs and logics | |
48/15 | DRS M30/M45/M55 etc Mainly logics & Specs | |
48/16 | ICL PC Book 1 | |
48/17 | DRS M30, 40, 50 Problem investigations Book 2 | |
48/18 | PCs M30, M40, M50 problem investigations Book 2 (Missing) | |
48/19 | ICL PC Book 3 (incl "Drive A hung) | |
48/20 | CP/M Operating system/ use guide | |
48/21 | Personal Basic reference | |
48/22 | 8085 Instruction set specification | |
48/23 | DRS - All types prior to DRS 300 – Problems | |
48/24 | DRS 20 specs etc. | |
48/25 | DRS 300 Disc problems (incl NNF review) | |
48/26 | DRS 300 Series – Problem investigations | |
48/27 | DRS 300 / CCU (incl ML2) | |
48/28 | RCU / CCU + DRS connect problems | |
48/29 | DRS Connect / MICROLAN 2 / IBDN basic info. | |
48/30 | DRS 400E (see also binder No.52) | |
48/31 | DRS 400 disc related specs | |
48/32 | DRS 400 specs & logics | |
48/33 | DRS 400 / 6406 video / Office Power | |
48/34 | Peripherals, (mostly LW400) on OSLAN / DRS400 etc. | |
48/35 | DRS 3000 I/O Problems & Exabyte spec | |
48/36 | DRS 6000 mainly logics & specs | |
48/37 | DRS 6000, Microlan investigations & info | |
48/38 | DRS 6000 VAIO – B232 | |
48/39 | DRS 6000 I/O Book 1 | |
48/40 | DRS 6000 I/O investigations Book 2 | |
48/41 | DRS 6000 I/O Investigations Book 3 | |
48/42 | System 25 investigations | |
48/43 | S25 Useful info for LA applications | |
48/44 | S25 CMT SCSI i/f etc. | |
48/45 | SCSI Spec Part 1 | |
48/46 | SCSI Spec part 2 | |
48/47 | "S" Series OCP’s problem investigations | |
48/48 | SCU 1 & SCU 1+ Fault investigations | |
48/49 | SCU Fault investigations Book 2 | |
48/50 | Oslan Bridges | |
48/51 | Retail Applications | |
48/52 | DRS 400/400E Async bugs & Logics |