MCCLUSKEY@JPL-VLSI.ARPA (08/30/84)
From: John McCluskey <MCCLUSKEY@JPL-VLSI.ARPA> <gobble> For Sale to a good Home. $475 ? Big Board II, Z80 single board computer. Featuring: A Z-80B CPU running at 4 Mhz (can be boosted to 5 or 6 MHz). SASI Hard Disk Interface with BIOS Source for a hard disk. STD Bus port for expansion. 1793 Single/Double Density Floppy controller for 8" or 5" disks. Z-80B DART twin RS-232 ports. Z-80 DMA for lightning fast disk transfers. Parallel keyboard input. Two 8 bit output ports, two 8 bit input ports for user I/O. Two Z-80B CTC's for baud rate generation and general timer use. 24 X 80 Video Generator with 7 X 9 pixel Characters emulating an ADM-31. 64 Kbytes of dynamic RAM. 6 sockets for 2732 EPROMS (Monitor EPROM included). Built in EPROM Programmer for 2716's and 2732's, with software! Including: Schematics, theory of operation, and monitor EPROM documentation. Monitor EPROM & BIOS Source code on 8" single density floppy. Games and EPROM programming software on 8" single density floppy. This board with an 8 inch single sided double density disk drive (about $100), makes a very nice CPM 2.2 system. Using 1K sectors, an 8" floppy will hold 720 Kbytes per side (flippy disk). ------