21 Sep
2007
21 Sep
'07
5:42 p.m.
Rumor has it that Jules Richardson may have mentioned these words:
Kind of posting on a whim that this might be something
obvious...
[snip]
Unfortunately I forgot to bring the thing home with me, so I'm a bit light
on remembered details (but can get more tomorrow if needs be). However, it
appeared to have both an 8088 and 8085 CPU on board, memory, what is
probably ROM, a handful of S100-bus [1] connectors, parallel port, a
light-pen port (unusual!), plus a few other ports (at least one was serial
I expect). There were a few other IDC-style pin headers too - perhaps for
some sort of storage, but none of them were obviously labeled as to function.
Sound familiar to anyone?
Sounds kinda like a motherboard for a Heath/Zenith... Z100? Was that the
designation? Those two processors were on the Z100 mobo... if you need to
see a picture, I can dig the mobo of one out of the crypt^Wbasement tonite...
Here's a not-so-great picture of the mobo for one:
http://retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/z100bdx.jpg
The Z-100 will take S-100 cards.
Hope this helps!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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