VeriFone Tranz 330

Posted by musovern on Jan 30th, 2019 in Single Board Computers, VeriFone Tranz 330 | 0 comments

The VeriFone Tranz 330 was a very popular, possibly iconic credit card terminal that was produced almost unchanged from 1985 through the mid ’00s. Inside is a Zilog Z80 running at 3.57MHz (colorburst!), 32K RAM and 32K EPROM, Z80 DART (SIO), Z80 PIO, Z80 CTC, modem, RTC, and the keypad/display. It’s a cookie cutter Z80 SBC design, which makes development pretty easy. They are plentiful and cheap on the used market due to the lack of PCI security (tamper proofing, end to end encryption, etc).

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