7 Jul
2014
7 Jul
'14
2:32 a.m.
Does anyone have an extra copy of the Mostek Z80 Microcomputer System
Micro-Reference Manual (a small 30ish page reference booklet, Mostek
publication number MK78516) that they'd be willing to part with? I'd like
to have an original, but a good scan would be the next best thing. There
doesn't appear to be a decent scan of it online. There's a common scan of
it that missing pages, poor registration, etc.
Also looking for the Zilog Z80 DMA Technical Manual (not the data sheet).
The more recent (late 80s through present) Zilog documentation is
absolutely riddled with errors. It looks like it went through several
generations of conversions between typesetting systems, getting worse at
each step.
I'm willing to pay modest prices and postage for those, and for other 70s
and early 80s Z80 family documentation from either Mostek or Zilog, in
order to produce good quality scans.
7 Jul
7 Jul
8:03 a.m.
On 7/7/14 2:32 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
I'm willing to pay modest prices and postage for
those, and for other 70s
and early 80s Z80 family documentation from either Mostek or Zilog, in
order to produce good quality scans.
Let me dig around in the archives. I haven't been bothering with these since
I had thought it was already adequately documented.
10:40 a.m.
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Eric Smith wrote:
Does anyone have an extra copy of the Mostek Z80
Microcomputer System
Micro-Reference Manual (a small 30ish page reference booklet, Mostek
publication number MK78516) that they'd be willing to part with? I'd like
to have an original, but a good scan would be the next best thing. There
doesn't appear to be a decent scan of it online. There's a common scan of
it that missing pages, poor registration, etc.
I found one here and made a reasonably clean PDF of it. Where would you
like me to upload it?
Steve
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10:58 a.m.
On 7/7/14 2:32 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
The more recent (late 80s through present) Zilog
documentation is
absolutely riddled with errors. It looks like it went through several
generations of conversions between typesetting systems, getting worse at
each step.
If you ever take the time, and errata document would be nice to add to bitsavers
for the various versions of the documents.
12:15 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 7/7/14 2:32 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
The more recent (late 80s through present) Zilog documentation is
The best errata for them is the original (1970s and early 1980s) manuals.
The 1990s ones are *so* shoddy that it's not even worth looking at them if
the original manuals can be found. It looks like they were retyped by
low-paid interns and never proofread. Entire rows, columns, or headings
got lost from tables, hexadecimal values are wrong, etc.
Of course, if errors are found in the original manuals, it's worth
publishing errata for those. I have vague memories of finding only one or
two minor errors in the peripheral tech manuals back in the day. I suspect
that Mostek and Zilog had the actual engineers proofread those.
absolutely riddled with errors. It looks like it
went through several
generations of conversions between typesetting systems, getting worse at
each step.
If you ever take the time, and errata document would be nice to add to
bitsavers
for the various versions of the documents.
8 Jul
8 Jul
12:59 p.m.
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Eric Smith wrote:
Does anyone have an extra copy of the Mostek Z80
Microcomputer System
Micro-Reference Manual (a small 30ish page reference booklet, Mostek
publication number MK78516) that they'd be willing to part with? I'd like
to have an original, but a good scan would be the next best thing. There
doesn't appear to be a decent scan of it online. There's a common scan of
it that missing pages, poor registration, etc.
I forwarded the PDF to Al at bitsavers, FWIW.
--
11:49 p.m.
Hi Eric
There is an 18 page 'product specification' for the Z8410 Z80 DMA
Direct Memory Access Controller in pages 49-67 in the 1982/3 Zilog
Data Book at bitsavers
(http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/zilog/_dataBooks/1982_Zilo…)
Hope this helps
David Green
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Subject:wanted: Mostek Z80 Micro-Reference Manual, Zilog Z80 DMA
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Does anyone have an extra copy of the Mostek Z80 Microcomputer System
Micro-Reference Manual (a small 30ish page reference booklet, Mostek
publication number MK78516) that they'd be willing to part with? I'd
like
to have an original, but a good scan would be the next best thing.
There
doesn't appear to be a decent scan of it online. There's a common
scan of
it that missing pages, poor registration, etc.
Also looking for the Zilog Z80 DMA Technical Manual (not the data
sheet).
The more recent (late 80s through present) Zilog documentation is
absolutely riddled with errors. It looks like it went through several
generations of conversions between typesetting systems, getting worse
at
each step.
I'm willing to pay modest prices and postage for those, and for other
70s
and early 80s Z80 family documentation from either Mostek or Zilog,
in
order to produce good quality scans.
9 Jul
9 Jul
12:13 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:49 AM, David Green <dgreen at iinet.net.au> wrote:
There is an 18 page 'product specification'
for the Z8410 Z80 DMA
Direct Memory Access Controller in pages 49-67 in the 1982/3 Zilog
Data Book at bitsavers
(
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/zilog/_dataBooks/1982_Zilo…
)
Thanks, but I already had that. I am looking for the "Z80 DMA Technical
Manual" of approximately 70-80 pages.
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