Ampro Little Board Plus

This is one of my current projects. It is based on the Ampro Little Board Plus which is a single board computer designed to be mounted on the back of a 5.25″ floppy disk drive.

It uses a Z80 processor running at 4MHz and includes two serial ports, one parallel port, a floppy disk controller and a SCSI controller. It runs CP/M 2.2 and is happy to boot off a floppy or hard disk. I’ve added a SCSI2SD to emulate several 20MB hard disk drives.

The user interacts with the machine using a serial terminal.

I started off with the two 40 track Mitsubishi drives shown but have been using a gotek (with FlashFloppy) for the software load.

Currently, i’m loading up a whole bunch of software from images created using cpmtools. Eventually this will be mounted in an external drive enclosure.

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