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The Z88 Motherboard Hardware and periphial cards

The Z88 Motherboard Hardware and periphial cards

Jun 03, 2015

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.

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