Author: Craig Andrews

Posted in STD Bus

STD Bus Prototyping Board

I needed a STD bus pad-per-hole prototyping card and it seems useful enough to take the trouble…

Posted in SBC-3870 F8

The Fairchild F8 Single Board Computer Gets me Out of My Wheelhouse

A few months ago, my new buddy Will sent a couple of Mostek MK38P70 microcontrollers and suggested…

Posted in STD Bus

STD Version of the SBC-85 CPU Board is in the works

 I have decided to port the SBC-85 8085 CPU board over to STD Bus.    I am…

Posted in Z80 Z80 SBC

Guus Assmann’s SBC-Z80 added to the SBC-85 Ecosystem

In my last post I introduced Guus Assmann’s SBC-V20 board, here is his SBC-Z80 version whose design…

Posted in V20 SBC

V20 Single Board Computer Added to the SBC Ranks

For those SBC-85 advocates that have been longing for the power and prestige that comes with the…

Posted in 8085 SBC

SBC-85 CPU v2 COM Mistake

Charles in Tennessee was having trouble with his USB to RS232 adapters working with his version 2…

Posted in Serial - Parallel I/O

SPIO v1.0 Under Test and Available

Version 1.0 of the Serial, Parallel I/O board features RS232 up to 19.2K, 24 pins of I/O…

Posted in Serial - Parallel I/O

An Updated SPIO Board is Off to the Fab House, Hopefully it isn’t as goobered up as the prototype.

Well, I really pulled a boner by not reading the RTC specification sheet for the SPIO board…

Posted in Serial - Parallel I/O

Serial – Parallel – I2C (SPI2C) v0.9 Prototype Going to Fab

An easy derivative of the SPIO (Serial, Parallel I/O) board is a version that has an I2C…

Posted in 8085 SBC

80C85 QFP CPU Board Design Available

Someone in the SBC-85 community came across the mother lode of quad flat pack 80C85 chips and…