Customer Setup of the NCR PC-8. - THE CORE MEMORY

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TABLE 8-INSTALLING THE 128K RAM UPGRADEEnd TimeH: M: S Activityread instructions and put in chips (instructions here aregood). where does 128k RAM go? develop strategy. whatorder should the chips go in? farthest ones first? alsoexamine boardblew it-put display board in first-remove board need morespace to grip top and put in platesinstall RAM chips (farthest in first)put graphics card back infasten retaining screw (used wrong size screw first time)(and comment-don't let it fall in)search instructions for informa1;ion. where is co-processorswitch? (configuration switch) decided there wasn't one. anyother options?- -8:20 I Total- Secorid Videotape - Finishing Hardware Installation, Installing the SoftwareAs was noted ]previously, no record was kept of the second session when the NCRfield engineers installed the 360K drive, ran the diagnostics, and ran the FDISK program.However, in the third session, the two participants from the first one were againvideotaped. Shown in Table 10 is a summary of the third session.The largest fraction of time (almost 25 minutes of the hour-and-22 minute session)was spent copying Ales from the floppy disks. Other time-consuming tasks includedpreparing a DOS disk and formatting the hard drive (18 minutes, and 30 minutes,respectively). The duration of these tasks could have been considerably reduced had batchfiles been provided to carry them out.Shown in Table 11 are the times associated with the first task of this session,unpacking and installing the tilt and swivel mechanism for the video monitor. This task
TABLE 9ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL FLOPPY DRIVEEnd TimeH: M: S Activitywhat's next? put in floppy drive (check shipping list forinformation)open big floppy box (not sure about serial card) wasn't surehow it openedremove foam & inner boxopen inner box and conductive foam bag in inner box, whatare stickers for?read kit instructions about floppy, confused about straps.English is together in one section in documentation(languages not mixed)examine drive. how are drives sequenced?continue with instructionsflip drive over & examinecontinue examining kit instructions, where do jumpers go?which U condition? hopelessly confused. which terminatingresistor comes out? indicator condition of what? which drive(no 360K label on front)look in owner's manual, but where? 360K drive sectionwhere are the guides? found them. remove guides frompackage, open package. directions covered by tape, hard toopen package, use peninstall 1 guide. which screws do you use? (4 screws and 2holes drive frame, 6 holes in guide). black screws or silverones? used black in back, silver in front, silver didn't work,remove it and use black one. pick up screw that falls onfloor (add label to railing guide-fronthack (to orient)), nomention of guides in instructionsinstall 2nd guidecheck fit of drive
Page 1 and 2: CUSTOMER SETUP OFTHE NCR PC-8PERSON
Page 3 and 4: LIS'I" OF TABLESCONTENTS...........
Page 5 and 6: PREFACEThe history of this project
Page 7 and 8: INTRODUCTIONThis experiment is an a
Page 9 and 10: - Test ParticipantsTEST PLANTwo mem
Page 11 and 12: In the second work period (for whic
Page 13 and 14: TABLE 1SESSION 1 SUMMARYTaskDuratio
Page 15 and 16: TABLE 2 (continued)Activityfound in
Page 17 and 18: TABLE 3UNPACKING AND INSTALLING KEY
Page 19 and 20: 1TABLE 5INSTALLING GRAPHICS CARDEnd
Page 21 and 22: Graphics ControlierGra fik- Con tro
Page 23: TABLE 7UNF'ACKING AND INSTALLING TH
Page 27 and 28: took just over five minutes. This i
Page 29 and 30: TABLE 13CHECKING mY LOCKEnd TimeH:
Page 31 and 32: TABLE 15PREPARING DOS DISKEnd TimeH
Page 33 and 34: TABLE 16SETTING COMPUTER TO BOOT FR
Page 35 and 36: RECOMMENDATIONSIt is clear from the
Page 37 and 38: the "'getting started" manual and t
Page 39 and 40: provide about contents and increase
Page 41 and 42: REFERENCESBoyer, H. "'Do-it-yoursel
Page 43 and 44: Solid NCR PC8Off BPS SupelliarATmCn
Page 45 and 46: APPENDIX BNCR PART NUMBERS OF ITEMS

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