Macrotech -- 128K Static RAM
This was an early Macrotech S-100 board. It came out in mid-1983.
The board contained 128 Kilobytes of 70NS CMOS static
RAM all on one board. It had a 6-layer printed circuit board which provided
ultra high stability. It
was designed to operate in any S-100
system, (IEEE or non-IEEE). There was external battery backup
capability. There was a 16-bit
addressing option and a memory mapping system they called (M3)
"bank select" that allows each 4K
block of the 16 bit (64K)
logical addresses to be dynamically
translated to any
4K block of the128K on-board physical memory. Being
IEEE-696 of course it took an 8 or 16 bit data path. The problem was
at the time it was quite expensive ($1300). Two 64K static boards were far
cheaper.
I do not have a copy of the manual for this board. If you can share one
please let me know.
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