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Dick Smiths Super 80 Technical Manual revision A - ChickenMan - 03-09-2021
Thanks to kimjohn for making this edition available for scanning. The manual is A4 in size and 74 pages long.
While this is titled as a Technical Manual it is really the Super 80 Assembly Manual with added Technical details. We already have the later Revision B of this manual in the Repository so it would be best to refer to it for updated information on the Super 80.
From the manual :-
Assembling the SUPER 80 microcomputer can be done in two ways.
Either we can put everything together at once and turn on the power
or we can assemble the board in small pieces, testing each as we go.
The first method is doomed to failure by a combination of the very
complexity of the unit and Murphy's Law*. The second method is
called Progressive Assembly and Test and is what I will describe in
this manual.
CONTENTS.
Bus block diagram
Assembly and testing
Parts list
Assembly and testing
Timing and fault location
Technical description
VDU
Timing network
Picture window
Addressing
Video generator
Keyboard
CPU
RAM
Memory Map
EPROMS
Monitor
Super Basic
S100 expansion interface
S100 bus signals
Input,output map
Serial interface
plus 5 Appendix
So in the Vintage Repository in the Super-80\Documentation\Manuals\Technical folder we placed
super80_technical_manual_issue_1_rev_a.pdf