Clone of CA80.

Description

When I was a teenager, the CA80 computer was created. Under the supervision of my teacher, I made my first copy of it. I only had the motherboard, and I drew the display in the same way as technical drawings - with ink. I got the keyboard from my teacher. These were the remains of a calculator.
In the early 1980s, it was the only option to have your own computer. At school we used an even older SA80, constructed by the same engineer: Stanisław Gardynik.
The structure was not complicated, but it was self-sufficient. It allowed you to enter a program using the hexadecimal keyboard and run it using the monitor function.
The monitor was only 2kB in size, but allowed debugging with single step work and 2 traps.
The comparison to Raspberry Pi is exaggerated, but there are small analogies to Arduino. The monitor contained many display, keyboard and input/output routines, so we can compare it to Arduino libraries.

Details

I designed the CA80 from scratch. Initially, I used SMD, but I changed the assumptions and adapted the project to RCbus. I used the Z80-MBC2 project and with its help I developed an additional data loader. I also made an additional mass memory module that stores programs in flash memory. The data format is compatible with that recorded on the tape recorder. LCD 2004 modules and a touch keyboard were also created. I also have a VFD display and a keyboard from an old calculator.

Files

SD_MSID.zip

All mandatory (monitor) and demo *.hex files.

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Code-ASM.zip

Source code of "tape recorder" and little Z80 debugger.

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CA80-BEZ-ROM-3-5-MSID-18-touch.zip

Code for ATmega32 for bootloader (included touchpad). MightyCore needed.

Zip Archive - 20.17 kB - 12/11/2023 at 15:36

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Build Instructions

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Arrangement of elements.

The assembly of the modules is similar to other projects of this type. The assembly diagram is marked on the PCB, so positioning the components should be easy.

System with 64 kB RAM.

If we build a system with a bootloader, we don't need U9 (EPROM) and U4 (HC138) on the CA80-CPU PCB. We don't have to solder points A, B, C, D, E and F too.

U31, U32 and U33 replace the mechanical keyboard, so we can not build it.

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Clone of CA80.

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