FYI, I located this today and attaching a few pictures.
This is a prototype board assembly designed by Balcones Computer Corporation and created in November of 1982 in Austin, TX.
This was the 8086 CPU board that turned the Xerox 820-II with on-board Z80A, into the 16/8 by plugging it into the...
I stumbled onto this smaller card today that I have been searching for... for years...It's a small slice of my own history at Balcones Computer Corporation.
Z-80 daughter card to SASI-40-pin. (To me it looks like this one had been installed into a Kaypro, (Balcones was also a Kaypro Dealer) but...
Have recently picked up a Mac SE/30 I have been attempting to restore. (It called out to me).
I have zero experience with old Apple products as I was focused on CP/M-80 and The PC's of Dell for years.
The system had the HD stripped out of it, no Keyboard, mouse or diskettes of any kind...
I recently ported my old 8" text based Adventure game that ran on a 60K CP/M 2.2 SD Systems SBC-100 S-100 system, Z-80, over to my Kaypro 10 (stock setup, stock bios). The K-10 runs CP/M 2.2g rev.
The game runs fine there...(starts up with "AD" and prompts for English or French input).
I then...
Looking for any information on this Vista FDC.
It came with a SOL-20 and 2 MPI b51 SS full
height floppy drives, also tagged Vista.
I have zero information and no boot diskettes.
Most of the IC's are late 1979 datecode on the
controller and there is no 40-pin controller chip.
This will be...