General Information
The RCA Microboards were used in different applications, I have been told some of them are still in use on Oil rigs in Alberta, Canada and were also used in Austalia to control space tracking and communications hardware. The manual can be found via RCA CMOS Microboard Computer CDP18S600
Technical specifications
Clock: 4.9152 MHz
Memory:
'1 Socket' for one 2K, 4K or 8K ROM or RAM chip
'4 Socket' for four 2K, 4K or 8K ROM or RAM chips
Links
- Manual: RCA CMOS Microboard Computer CDP18S600
- Reproduction of some of the Microboards can be found here
Main Features CDP18S600 Microboard Emulator
- Adjustable speed, boosting the speed of the CDP18S600 beyond 4.9152 MHz!
- Direct CDP18S600 memory access to load and save software from the PC hard disk via intel hex or binary files
- Terminal simulation (DEC VT-52 and VT-100)
- PIO / CDP1851 simulation window
- Video screen dump to a file (BMP, JPEG, PNG or PCX image)
- Single step mode, taking one CPU cycle per step