CompuPro - System Support 1
Board
The System Support 1 board combined many
of the most often desired "extras" in an S-100 computer system. Most of these
features don't take up enough board space to justify an entire board devoted to
performing specifically that function. For example, if every function that
is performed by the System Support were put on a separate board, it would take
up 7 slots! By integrating all these functions into one multi-function board,
CompuPro conserved slots, power, and cost.
This board provided the system with
sophisticated control of bus interrupts, 3 independent interval timers, a "real
time" clock/calendar that provides BCD hours/minutes/seconds /month/day/year
with battery backup, a full RS-232 serial channel which included full
handshaking, space for 4K of RAM or EPROM with provision for battery back-up for
2K of CMOS RAM. There was also provision for adding a high performance math
processor to increase system throughput. There even was circuitry for the
generation of the new S-100 signal PWRFAIL signal. The
board did however require 16 I/O ports. These could however reside on any 16
port boundary. CompuPr0 started their block at 50H. The onboard memory
could be phantomed out or disabled. It used the 9511A or 9512 math
co-processor and required the bus pin 49 for a 2Mhz clock signal.
There was a System Support 2 board as
well but I cannot get any information about it. If you have any please let me
know.
The manual for this board can be
obtained
here.
This page was last modified
on
10/25/2013