New Toy- 8088 SBC

[Scott Stevens]

I competed in the horserace called eBay last week and acquired what to me is a wonderful piece of hardware-  A commercially produced 8088 single board computer that uses ALL TTL logic except for the 8088 processor itself.  It has a compliment of 8 bit input and output ports made with 20-pin TTL chips, and the docs include full schematics.  I can now adapt the design to other 8088 SBC computer ideas I have.  It has a BASIC interpreter in ROM and the console is over a serial port.  It apparently can burn EPROMs on-board and has about five open sockets for adding code.  It's all on about a 5"x7" card and hails from the year 1992.  It has, uh, all the power of a current-generation PIC from Microchip, but in a much neater package.

It's a Vesta Technology, Inc. SBC88A.