Re: Z80 pods, 2 versions...

  I've never heard of the Z-80 QT pod but I'm guessing that it has the
Quick Tests similar to the 68000 pod. The Quick Tests are run from the pod
and not from the 9010 so they don't have the communications bottle neck.

   The Z-80A pod uses a faster CPU than the standard Z-80 pod. I've never
heard of a difference in the firmware but it may be different. I wonder if
it's possible to upgrade the Z-80 to a Z-80A pod just by installing the
faster CPU and (possibly) the firmware?

   Joe

At 04:45 AM 3/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
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>Make that 3 different pods.. I have a Z80QT pod. QT=quicktest, must use
>some specialized software for a 9100A? I have no idea what the differences
>are, but I have a Z80QT manual somewhere, Chris Loggans may have it.
>
>Jeff
>
>
>On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, John Robertson wrote:
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>> In a collection of Z80 pods that I bought recently there was a Z80A pod,
>> opening it up reveled what looked like a standard Z80 with a slightly
>> different revision number on the hardware, and the eprom had a different
>> revision number. The CPU chip was the same speed, and I don't recall any
>> other changes. If anyone is interested I will dig some more and post here
>> the hardware revisions.
>>
>> If anyone is interested in the code, it is pretty small (only 2K
unzipped),
>> would folks mind if I just posted it? That would be easiest...
>>
>> John :-#)#
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Received on Wed Mar 15 09:45:12 2000