Information requested on Vector Graphics machine

[gtulloch at shaw.ca]

Hi Gil:

The Flashwriter II boards are meant to connect to a "Mindless Terminal" ie 
basically a keyboard and CRT, all of the smarts were on the board. I have 
a Vector MZ with Flashwriter II and Mindless terminal, which is slightly 
different than the ZCB in that the CPU board and IO were on seperate 
boards. With the right ROM the ZCB works with a serial terminal as well, I 
have some images that might work.

Documentation on most of what you have should be at 

http://www.hartetechnologies.com/manuals/Vector%20Graphics/

If you have any questions let me know...

Regards,
  Gord

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Gord Tulloch (www.gordtulloch.com)
RASC Winnipeg Centre

cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org wrote on 13/11/2005 02:32:09 PM:
> What I do know: The machine is Z80 based on a "ZCB" single board 
computer
> which sits in the S100 bus. It also has a hard disk/floppy drive
> controller board, what appear to be three memory boards and three
> "FlashWriter II"s which, all share one wire in common with a memory 
board
> (A big question mark over that one).
> 
> Alas some philistine couldn't be bothered unplugging the unit from
> whatever it once hooked to, and snipped both the ribbon cables to the
> drive chassis as well as a ribbon cable that lead to an unknown device
> (possibly a specialised graphics display).
> Replacing the cabling isn't a problem, of course, but whatever the blue
> ribbon cable goes to definitely did not come included.
>