New Toy- 8088 SBC

[Teo Zenios]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:44 PM
Subject: New Toy- 8088 SBC


> 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.

That company is still in business www.vestatech.com, I developed some
process controllers using their SBC2000-332 Motorola boards in the late
1990's (just before the crash in semiconductor equipment orders). They have
since moved into a bigger building so they must be doing well.