The PC532 quick description

The pc532 is a motherboard designed in 1989 and 1990 by George Scolaro and Dave Rand in Sunnyvale, California. They were kind enough to distribute their design for others to use. What they distributed was FULL information about the motherboard. They also had the motherboard fabricated and sold them to people so they could build a working pc532.

The basic features are:

A motherboard was shipped to people who bought them with a complete hardware description, full schematics, and PAL/GAL programming information. The first general distribution of pc532s included a special deal where all the chips were included in the purchace. Later distributions included only the motherboard and buyers banded together to get all the chips that were needed.

Just recently, a owner of a pc532 designed a simple daughter board that plugs into one of the SCN2861 DUART slots and implements two Centronics parallel ports.

To our knowledge, there were less than 200 working copies of the pc532. The only way to get one today is to find someone with one they don't want and to buy it from them.


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