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Bigboard

The Bigboard was a Z80 based single-board computer designed by Jim Ferguson. It provided interfaces for:

A keyboard
A CRT with 24 lines by 80 characters
Two 8" IBM 3740 compatible floppy disk drives.
Two RS-232 serial ports.
A parallel Centronics standard printer port

Running the /A> operating system, the design was a success in the amateur computer scene. It was also sold to Xerox, which used it as a basic of their Xerox 820 desktop computer. The Kaypro 2 was un unlicensed pirate of the same circuit design.

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