This document, "PDP-14 Maintenance Manual Volume II," is a technical manual containing comprehensive electrical schematics and component location diagrams for various hardware modules of the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-14 system. It serves as a visual reference crucial for the maintenance and understanding of the system's architecture.
The manual includes detailed information on:
- Control and Timing Units: PDP-14 control blocks, major states and timing (M741), switch and power control (M742), instruction decoder and register control (M740), and compare control blocks (M744).
- Registers: Major registers (bits 0-5 and 6-11), bus registers (M746, M747), and incrementing bus registers.
- Memory and ROM: 1K Memory (MR14) options (First, Second, Third, Fourth Installed), ROM Braid Boards (G922), ROM Sense Amplifiers (G923), and ROM Selection (G924).
- Interfaces: PDP-8/I and PDP-8/L interfaces (DA14), device code select jumper boards (M921), input interface boxes (BX14), output interface boxes (BY14), accessory interface boxes (BA14), storage interface boxes (BF14), and K interface control (M743).
- Logic and Other Modules: Dot NOR gates (M106), isolated AC switches (K614), timers (K302), retentive memory (K272), flip-flops (K207), binary-to-octal decoders (K161), inverters (K135), and power supply filter assemblies.
- Module Utilization: Diagrams illustrating module usage across different control unit rows.
The document primarily consists of figures and diagrams, making it an essential resource for hardware-level troubleshooting, repair, and understanding of the PDP-14 system.