The Z88 Motherboard Hardware and periphial cards
The Z88 is organized around four integrated circuits: the Z80 microprocessor, a specialized gate-array called 'Blink', the ROM chip and a pseudo-static RAM chip. There are 8 connectors on the motherboard. This part describes the pinout, the usage and modifications if they are possible.
- Integrated circuits
- Z80 CPU (IC1)
- RAM (IC2)
- ROM (IC3)
- Blink gate-array (IC4)
- Connectors
- Slot connector
- Expansion port
- Serial port
- Keyboard connectors
- LCD connector
- External hardware via slot connector
- Flash EPROMs.
The following pages will detail each of the above.