There are 5
PCBs inside the case. One just holds 2 LEDs. Another is the
SMPSU. Which leaves 3 boards for digital stuff. One has the 80188 and
peripheral interface chips -- I forget the details, but theu're all
pretty standard. Another has The TMS34010, RAMDAC and lots of RAM on it.
And the last is a daughterboard for that one and contains 10 or so EPROMs
containing the XSerer and fonts.
Interesting. I've seen quite a few network interfaces controlled via 80188
CPUs in larger systems around the mid-late 80s - I wonder if they borrowed one
such design and added the ability for it to drive keyboard/mouse interfaces,
or whether they designed the network side from scratch...
I am going ot have to find the schematics...
The ethernet circuit used one of the stnadard (for the time) chipsets --
8390 ethernet controller + 8391 encoder/decoder. There's a thinwire
transceiver on the board (along with an AUI connector for other types of
ethernet), that uses the 8392 chip.
Other (main) components on the CPU board are the 80188, 512K of DRAM, a
pair of 27C512 EPROMs (one lammed 'Comm', the other 'TCP'), an 8724
microcontroller (for the keyboard interface, it also has a 9346 E2PROM
hung off some of its port lines, presumably to store setup data) and a
2692 serial chip, eused for RS232 and mouse ports.
The video PCB contains the 34010, a apir of 27512 EPROMs. 8 megabytes of
DRAM, 1 megabyte of video RAM and an 81C176 RAMDAC. The EPROM
daughterboard contains 14 more 27512s
-tony