From: "ben franchuk"
<bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
Joe R. wrote:
Today I found a big stack of computer cards
with Z8000 CPUs on them. The
Z8000s are socketed and I planned on grabbing them. But I'm wondering if
it's worth the trouble to take the related parts off? They're all soldered
on so they'd take more work. Besides the Z0800110PCS CPU, the others are
Z08030AB1 Z-SCC, Z0803606PSC Z-CIO, Z0801010PSC Z-MMU and Z0858110PSC. Any
thoughts on this?
Joe
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I like my computers whole. :)
Who did make Z8000 computers? The Z8000 like several other
CPU's that never made it big and vanished out of sight.
Ben.
Hi Ben
I think Olivetti was the only one I know of. The M20 ( I have
one of these working ) was the most common. The M20 was also
labled as L1 for some markets. I think there was a M30 and M40
that also had the Z8000 as well( not to be confused with the
M24 that most have seen ).
There were a number of custom applications and even some
Multibus boards made with Z8000's but in the desk top like world,
I think the M20 was it.
I've got both PCOS and CPM8000 running on my M20. The board,
Joe has, has the MMU so it would be a candidate for getting CPM8000
up on. I'd be a lot of work to trace out how things were
interconnected. Not an easy project without some board schematics.
I could assist anyone wanting to get CPM8000 running on a
Z8000 system but before starting to build one, contact me and
I can describe some of the design requirements.
Dwight