[rescue] what the heck is it

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

OK... so I took it apart...

There are 3 boards... all made by TEC

CPU Board:

CPU.KEY.RAMI/F
HEIID 028930
ASSY NO.HE82D054701

Display Interface Board:

DISPLAY I/F
HEIID 029340
ASSY NO.HE82D054801

FDC Board:

FDC CNT
HEIID 029040
ASSY NO.HE82D054901

The edge connectors have 59 pins on each side.  There is a slit (key) 
between
pins 6 and 7 .... not sure if this matches any 'standard' bus.

This is probably all custom stuff... but hoping (probably in vain), that 
maybe this
thing is simply built from 'standard' parts... and can run something 
else (CPM ? etc)

I have some pictures... but I haven't gotten them uploaded anywhere yet.

The 2 floppy drives are 5.25" FH (like IBM PC/XT) Qume Qumetrak 542 drives
(belt drive of course).  So looks like 300RPM 360K drives.  Not sure of belt
health (the look OK... but not sure how much tension they should have).  
These
floppy drives good models ?  Suppose you could use them in a PC/XT 
restoration
(minus the fact they wouldn't be Tandons or have IBM P/Ns).

-- Curt



Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: "Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." <rescue at hawkmountain.net>
>> Date: 2007/10/16 Tue PM 09:39:16 CDT
>> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [rescue] what the heck is it
>>     
>
>   
>> Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:44:34AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> My money is on it being an 8080-based dedicated word processor...
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I'll take that bet and raise it to a Z80. :-)
>>>
>>> Geoff.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'll have pictures to follow at some point... but you are both wrong :-)
>> It's an 8085 :-)
>>     
>
> I was closer (the 8085 and 8080 were both Intel chips - the Z-80 was a Zilog 
> chip...
>
> Lionel
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