New Toy- 8088 SBC

[Chris M]

Nice acquisition. Vesta also designed the 80188 based
robot brain from Radio Electronics circa 1987. I was
successful in obtaining the FORTH and BASIC/BIOS rom
images (theyre still around). It took 2 tries. It pays
to be persistent. I dont imagine your kit came with
the circuit board artwork? And is there a floppy
interface (if so, which chip?).
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
<chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.



		
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