Fabio Battaglia
2013-12-15 11:15:11 UTC
Hello everyone!
First of all, as this is my first message here, I want to quickly introduce myself: I live in Italy, I work as a programmer for embedded systems and I've been a long time passionate of old computers, old arcades and ancient books (which I recognize being a weird association).
I discovered N8VEM a few years ago, when I was searching for some storage solution for an industrial XT clone I recovered and found out about the XT-IDE (I got a pcb from Andrew and I now have one happy XT with 2GB of storage and FreeDOS :-D).
I've always caressed the idea of building an homebrew computer, but what made me jump on the train and buy an SBC from Andrew is that I recently cleaned up my storage room and started cataloging the components salvaged by me and my father in the last 30 years: In one of the boxes I found a nice stock of old Z80, 8080, 8086, 6502 processors, ready for use!
So, here is a photo of my almost completed SBC V2 board:
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It boots and works fine: It's just missing the NVRAM controller, the clock, some components for the ECB bus and the bicolor LED (while I have literally kilograms of led, none of those is bi-color :-/). Also, I had to adapt a 4Mhz full can oscillator.
Every component (with the exception of the electrolytic caps) on that board is salvaged, sockets included.
I'm in the process of ordering the missing components for this board, for the ECB backplane and for the Disk I/O V3. I'll post more photos when the build is completed.
First of all, as this is my first message here, I want to quickly introduce myself: I live in Italy, I work as a programmer for embedded systems and I've been a long time passionate of old computers, old arcades and ancient books (which I recognize being a weird association).
I discovered N8VEM a few years ago, when I was searching for some storage solution for an industrial XT clone I recovered and found out about the XT-IDE (I got a pcb from Andrew and I now have one happy XT with 2GB of storage and FreeDOS :-D).
I've always caressed the idea of building an homebrew computer, but what made me jump on the train and buy an SBC from Andrew is that I recently cleaned up my storage room and started cataloging the components salvaged by me and my father in the last 30 years: In one of the boxes I found a nice stock of old Z80, 8080, 8086, 6502 processors, ready for use!
So, here is a photo of my almost completed SBC V2 board:
Loading Image...
It boots and works fine: It's just missing the NVRAM controller, the clock, some components for the ECB bus and the bicolor LED (while I have literally kilograms of led, none of those is bi-color :-/). Also, I had to adapt a 4Mhz full can oscillator.
Every component (with the exception of the electrolytic caps) on that board is salvaged, sockets included.
I'm in the process of ordering the missing components for this board, for the ECB backplane and for the Disk I/O V3. I'll post more photos when the build is completed.
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