Hardware Documentation (EEC-V focused but others accepted)

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I've been working on a bit of a side project to try to map out the EEC-V computers to their core board designs. Sometimes code from one computer works on another just fine as long as the required hardware is on the board. What I'm trying to do is document the actual board numbers as a step 1 process, then I can go through and identify what chips are for what features and slowly build up a database with this kind of info. Maybe some day be able to scan a bin file with what hardware it was orig intended for, and have a page produce all known hwid's that would fully function with that bin including the pinout. In the future maybe even be able to remap the memory addresses to make pinouts match up, but that's a much more future thing than right now.

Anyway, what I'm looking for is photos of the computer sticker (part number, hardware id, etc) and photos of the actual circuit board, mainly looking for the identifier markings, but overall photos (top + bottom) can be useful and listing the chip id's would be extra credit. There's quite a lot of hwid's, but my theory is there's a whole lot less board numbers and I'm pretty sure there's a pretty wide range of hwid's that can work with a given calibration file. I could be wrong, but doing some quick filtering and looking at things, I'm thinking there's roughly 40 distinct board designs, but each one can be in different cases which has a different physical board design but the code interchange fine. I've seen that even though the part number was exactly the same on both computers.

I'll update the post below this one for what hwid's I have covered and hopefully get a list of ones I'm looking for posted.

Case Designs

• Cast AL - 6 bolts from top side, sometimes there's chips along the edge with black spring clips on them
• Clam Shell - 2 bolts from side, middle is cast AL, top and bottom and tin. Almost all of these have the black spring clamps
• Tin - Bottom side has 4 tabs to bend to open the case, bottom is glued to the bottom of the circuit board

Board Identifiers

Here's some examples for each case design and some notes about them.

Cast AL

• PWB6548/ML2-9XX/XL3F-BC
• 4769/MLC-2XX/F7LF-NB
• 6562/MTC-32X/F81F-HC

Bottom edge of board (easiest ones)

Clam Shell

• M602H/84D41506L07
• 84D42180R01
• M779G
• M505G/84D44754M06/BM-AD

These are a bit of the wild west style. Markings generally along the edge of the board. The M number is somewhat random location. Sometimes there's an extra marking like BM-AD along the edge, not 100% sure if that has much of a role though.

Tin

• M779G
• 84D42180R01
• M760D/84D43971L04/TC-AC

These ones seem to be a similar situation, somewhere on the top side there's generally an M number. The gap on the bottom side is where the 84D number is located (need a good light), and only recently started adding the extra identifier I've been seeing (TC-AC for example, but that seems to be on a lot of them so might not mean anything important).

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Here's a list of unique hardware id's I've added so far. I've included the case type as sometimes there's more than one case type.

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LP2-321	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-30D	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-402	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-405	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-406	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-431	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-463	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-482	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-486	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-4B1	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-4B2	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-711	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-712	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-831A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-832A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-833A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-841A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-842A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-843A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-862A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-871	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-891	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-8A1A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-8B1A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-8B1A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-8C1A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-8C2A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-8E1A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-8E2A	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-941	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-952	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-971	Tin (Fold Tabs)
ML2-971	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
ML2-972	Tin (Fold Tabs)
ML2-981	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
ML2-A03	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MLC-211	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-411	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-421	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-431A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-441	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-466A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-467A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-481A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-491A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-496A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-497A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLC-4A1	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MLF-521	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MP2-111	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MP2-112	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MP2-113	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MP2-114	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MP2-121	Clam Shell (2 Bolt)
MP2-171	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MP2-181	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MP2-182	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MP2-18B	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MP2-18C	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MP2-1A2	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MP2-1E0	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MP2-27B	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MP2-28A	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MP2-2B3	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MP2-37B	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MPC-111	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MPC-141	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MPC-143	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MPC-15C	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MPC-161	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MPC-177	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MPC-185	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MPC-189	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MPC-195	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MPC-196	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MPC-197	Tin (Fold Tabs)
MPC-201	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MTC-301	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MTC-322	Cast AL (6 Bolt)
MTC-422	Cast AL (6 Bolt)