Hi Gil:
The Flashwriter II boards are meant to connect to a "Mindless Terminal" ie
basically a keyboard and CRT, all of the smarts were on the board. I have
a Vector MZ with Flashwriter II and Mindless terminal, which is slightly
different than the ZCB in that the CPU board and IO were on seperate
boards. With the right ROM the ZCB works with a serial terminal as well, I
have some images that might work.
Documentation on most of what you have should be at
http://www.hartetechnologies.com/manuals/Vector%20Graphics/
If you have any questions let me know...
Regards,
Gord
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Gord Tulloch (
www.gordtulloch.com)
RASC Winnipeg Centre
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classiccmp.org wrote on 13/11/2005 02:32:09 PM:
What I do know: The machine is Z80 based on a
"ZCB" single board
computer
which sits in the S100 bus. It also has a hard
disk/floppy drive
controller board, what appear to be three memory boards and three
"FlashWriter II"s which, all share one wire in common with a memory
board
(A big question mark over that one).
Alas some philistine couldn't be bothered unplugging the unit from
whatever it once hooked to, and snipped both the ribbon cables to the
drive chassis as well as a ribbon cable that lead to an unknown device
(possibly a specialised graphics display).
Replacing the cabling isn't a problem, of course, but whatever the blue
ribbon cable goes to definitely did not come included.