g0ozs Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Following a recent trip to Withams I have ended up with a Trend Printer 610 (or rather several) and would be interested in any documentation to avoid trial-and-error discovery of the serial communication settings. I think the 600 series shared the same basic printer and V.24 serial hardware so manuals for 610 printer or 619 keyboard/printer units will probably have what I need. As an aside the Withams listing was wrong - they were described as model 615 but on peeling the "do not cover" label are confirmed as model 610. I have attached some photos so you know what I'm talking about ! Regards Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 You could always try the makers, they can only say no ; TREND NETWORKS SERVICES EAGLE HOUSE PEREGRINE BUSINESS PARK GOMM ROAD HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, HP13 7DL UNITED KINGDOM Phone:01494 460700 Fax:01494 460701 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0ozs Posted December 6, 2014 Author Share Posted December 6, 2014 Richard I have thought of that because I have been there and I actually know people who work there but they are an IT service company now (part of the Phoenix group - I think Trend Network Services exists only as a legal entity now) - I don't believe there is any link to the manufacturing heritage. Regards Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Richard I have thought of that because I have been there and I actually know people who work there but they are an IT service company now (part of the Phoenix group - I think Trend Network Services exists only as a legal entity now) - I don't believe there is any link to the manufacturing heritage. Regards Iain Hi Iain, I just looked up NSN and saw that, it was worth a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0ozs Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 Richard I doubt Eagle House was even built when the printer was being made. What's left of the hardware business is Trend Communications Ltd which went to Telemetrix plc at the break-up or the original business rather than Phoenix and is now a subsidiary of Ideal Communications - they only do test equipment and I believe they represent the legacy of a different part of the original Trend business. Regards Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Iain you need to look for the AESP sequence 5815-M-301-xxx Trend Electronic Teleprinters & Paper Tape Attachments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Found this, still listed in 2004 although I don't have any later catalogues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0ozs Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 Clive Many thanks. I can see a FOI request coming to extract these Regards Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Iain that would be interesting to see if FOI can lever out publications rather than just a page or two from a MERLIN search. The other options I suppose are the RS or REME museums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0ozs Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 Clive VMARS were successful in retrieving the Clansman and Clark/RACAL mast EMERs through the FOI route so it does work for obsolete equipment. The release was subject to a "research and private study" restriction which has been implemented by making it a membership only resource I'm not sure if a private FOI request would be as successful so I will try everything else first Regards Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW8IZR Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 The same printer was used in the eighties as part of the TOPS system for BR ( Railway signaling ) that may be another avenue to search for information. All my manuals and spares went many , many years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0ozs Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 Thanks for that - lots of history and operational data but not much about the printers ! Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW8IZR Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Thanks for that - lots of history and operational data but not much about the printers ! Iain You could try Geoff G4GNQ who may still have some info or maybe contacts that might help. I suspect lots of the useful information will be gone now as the Telecom operation moved to Racal and then network rail and during such moves lots of history is discarded ISTR they were fairly simple v-24 printers but lots of TTL which may be fun to debug today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Clive VMARS were successful in retrieving the Clansman and Clark/RACAL mast EMERs through the FOI route so it does work for obsolete equipment. The release was subject to a "research and private study" restriction which has been implemented by making it a membership only resource I'm not sure if a private FOI request would be as successful so I will try everything else first Regards Iain For reference, I extracted the entire set of AESPs for the FV430 family by an FoI request. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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