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 Microboard Computer CDP18S603A
Technical specifications
Clock: 2.0 MHz
Memory:
'RAM Socket' for one 1K RAM chip
'ROM Socket' for four 1K or 2K ROM chips
Links
- Manual: RCA Microboard Computer CDP18S603A
- Reproduction of some of the Microboards can be found here
Main Features CDP18S603A Microboard Emulator
- Adjustable speed, boosting the speed of the CDP18S603A beyond 2.0 MHz!
- Direct CDP18S603A 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