Cromemco 16K Dynamic RAM Board
Cromemco almost from the start decided
to build their systems with dynamic RAM memory cards. They started with this 16K
card. It was produced with minor modifications for many years.
The card had a bank select feature
allowing up to 8 banks to reside in one system. Active banks could be selected
in software -- ideal for multiuser systems and CPM3 by outputting the
appropriate bit to port 40H. Each board had an LED indicating when it was
active. The board also could handle DMA but did not have its
own onboard memory refresh controller. Refresh was done during the 8080 or Z80
M1 cycle. Not sure it would work in more complex master/slave systems. As
with the Vector Graphic boards without an LSI refresh controller special care
had to be taken with the POC/RESET lines that the signal times were short (see
manual below). The card worked at up to 4MHz with no wait states.
The manual for this board can be
obtained here.
Other Cromemco S-100
Boards
ZPU
SBC 4KRAM
16K RAM
64KZ RAM
64KZ-II
RAM
256KRAM
8KBytesaver Bytesaver-II
16KPROM
32K Bytesaver
4FDC 16FDC 64FDC
WDI WDI-II
STDC
4PIO
8PIO TU-ART
D+7A I/O
Dazzler PRI
GPIB Board
XMU
XXU
Other Boards
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