help identifying S100 board

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Mon Nov 10 18:58:37 2003

Hi
 This may not even be a s100 board. The height is wrong. Check
the power leads carefully before plugging into a s100. It
does seem to be a complete single board computer.
Dwight


>From: "Ian Primus" <ian_primus_at_yahoo.com>
>
>I recently acquired this board, it appears to be an S100 board, since
>it has the 100 pin connector and voltage regulators onboard. Does
>anyone know what this is, or what it came from? In the upper right
>corner, it says "Dynatech NEWSTAR 1MP481 REV. A (C) 1990" The board has
>a Z80, a 27128 EPROM, an 8k static RAM, some 41c256 DRAMS, a Z80 SIO,
>some RS-232 line driver pairs (1488/1489), and two 26 pin headers,
>which appear to be serial ports.
>
>Here is a picture I took:
>http://24.194.65.231/images/unknownboard.jpg
>
>It appears to be a complete Z80 computer on a board, so I would imagine
>that it would be possible to power it up, and connect a terminal to it,
>but I don't know if it would do anything. Any information on what this
>could be, or what it might do would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Ian Primus
>ian_primus_at_yahoo.com
>
>
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