What is a QBus Z-Board by Virtual Microsystems

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp1164.monmouth.com>
Date: Tue Aug 14 14:57:49 2001

> Going through my old Qbus and Unibus cards getting them ready to sell I found
> a very interesting card with four Z80 based computers on a Qbus card. It
> appears to me to be four complete 8 bit computers on a quad card, each with
> CPU and memory but no I/O. It is all socketed chips with the only other large
> chips being a pair of 2901 bit slicers.
>
> It is copyrighted 1983 by Virtual Microsystems and called the Z-Board. Made
> in the USA.
>
> Any idea what it was and what it was used for? Google turned up nothing other
> than VM was bought and sold several times.
>
> Three pictures at http://members.aol.com/innfogra/zboard.jpg
>
> A single one at http://members.aol.com/innfogra/zboard2.jpg
>
> If interested in purchase please contact me off list, here or at
> whoagiii_at_aol.com.
>
> Paxton
> Astoria

It ran Z80 based CP/M applications on this board under VAX/VMS.

Bill

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