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THE WORLD'S FIRST . ...

S-100 Single Board Computer




TECHNICAL MANUAL
for


SUPER QUAD




12700-8 Knott Avenue, Garden Grove, CA 92641
TELE: (714) 891-4004/ TELEX: 678401 Tabirin
INTRODUcrION


ADVANCED DIGITAL CORPORATION is proud to introduce the SUPER QUAD.
The SUPER QUAD is a Z80 based single board computer designed to be
a bus master in an SIOO bus system. The SUPER QUAD SOC has all the
hardware needed to run a single user CP/M system or 2 user MP/M
system with up to 4 external floppy disk drives and an external
Centronics parallel interface printer all on one board.
The board also runs with TURBO-LOS Un.
The SUPER QUAD SEC contains:


1) Z-80A cpu (4 MHZ)
2) Floppy disk controller (up to 4 drives 8" or 5!:i" )
3) 64K of dynamic merrory (16K bank selectible)
4) 2K or 4K of shadow eprom (2716 or 2732)
5) 2 serial ports (Z80A SIO opt. syncronous)
6) 2 12 bit parallel ports, (Z80A PIO)
one of which can be used
for SIOO vectored interrupts
7) Real t~e interrupt clock (Z80A CTC)
8) SIOO extended address Al6-A23


ONE YEAR WARRANTY.




*Note: Items 5 and 6 require external adaptation for RS-232 and
Centronics. The adapter boards are 2 x 2" and are called
PS NET. They hoop up to the back of the main frame with
a DB-25 connector.




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