by musovern | Jan 29, 2019 | Single Board Computers
The MiniMax8085 project has been brewing for almost three years. Sometime in the spring of 2014 my kids and I visited local the surplus store, where my kids found some Intel 8000 series parts in the kids-fill-your-bucket area. Among these ICs were there: an 8085 CPU,...
by musovern | Sep 14, 2018 | Single Board Computers
The LLL MST-80B is a complete microcomputer system self-contained in a briefcase for portability and easy usage. The microcomputer was designed as a training device for LLL’s Technology Training Program (TTP), and lowing students to explore the hardware and...
by musovern | Sep 12, 2018 | Single Board Computers
In the late 90s, Robert Armstrong of Spare Time Gizmos designed a single board computer using the Harris HD-6120 CMOS “PDP-8 on a chip”. Bob no longer offers new SBC6120 kits or boards, be he has made the design documentation, source code, and design files for the...
by musovern | Jun 27, 2018 | Single Board Computers
In march 2007 Grant Searle introduced “CP/M on Breadboard”, a 9 chip Z80 CP/M computer using a CF card as mass storage device. This is the up-to-date version, including 5 CP/M variants and NASCOM Basic Z80 SBC-2G-512k From the website...
by musovern | Jun 27, 2018 | Single Board Computers
SGS NBZ80 Nanocomputer This unit is the NBZ80-B: Nanocomputer base board with 2K ROM, Input Hex keypad device and power supply. Doc and Nanobook 1. Basically, the S without the experiment card NEZ-80. Its manufacturer, SGS (Societa Generale Semiconduttore) is from...
by musovern | May 10, 2018 | Single Board Computers
The micro UK101 described here is by Grant Searle effectively the stripped-down “core” of the original UK101, and is no way intended to be the full UK101 implementation. The display and the keyboard circuitry and, instead, used a terminal emulation program (eg...
