KayPro 16 was:Re: Kaypros

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sat Dec 27 22:37:05 1997

Adam,

  I have a KayPro service manual dated September 85 and it list the model
16. The model 16 has a detachable IBM compatable keyboard, one 360 K disk
drive and a 10 Meg hard drive. It also has a built in 9 inch monochrome
green monitor with a 25 x 80 display. It has an Intel 8088 CPU running at
4.77MHz. It uses a 8237A DMA, an 8253-5 timer, an 8255-5 peripheral
interface, an 8259A interrupt controller, an 8284A clock and an 8288 bus
controller. The standard system has a motherboard and three cards and one
open expansion slot.

  The mother board is socketed for 512K of memory but only 256 K is
installed from the factory. The motherboard contains the circuitry that
decodes RGB video into gray levels of monochrome. Also on the motherboard
is a WD1002 disk controller board.

  One of the cards is the processor card. It contains the keyboard
interface, the clock, the timer, the bus controller, the DMA, the
programmable peripheral interface and the programmable interrupt
controller. It also contains a socket for a math coprocessor.

  Another of the other cards is the floppy-RAM-I/O card. It contains a
DB-25S connector for the parallel port and either a DB-9S or DB-9P
connector for the serial port. The third card is a color graphics card for
use with an external RGB or monochrome monitor. It has a DB-9S connector
for the RGB monitor and a connector for a monochrome monitor. Both use
standard cables.

  Joe



At 10:21 AM 12/27/97 +1030, you wrote:
>I just had the most wonderful bit of luck, and have been offered the
>Kaypro II, 4 and 10 in the one hit, for almost nothing. Anyway, the
>person offering them was curious (and now so am I) regarding the
>existance of the Kaypro 16. Was there indeed such a system, and how sis
>it differ from the others? And did Kaypro make anything else?
>
>Thanks heaps,
>
>Adam.
>
Received on Sat Dec 27 1997 - 22:37:05 GMT