MZ 18 slot processor box which could have up to 5 mindless terminals connected
This box actually contains the pcbs for a 5032E (extra 64K ram pcb) multi user system where the 8 inch Quantum 40 mb hard disk (see below) is mounted in another MZ box in place of the S100 slot. In the 5005 unit the 5 mb hard disk is mounted in the space beside the floppy drive and just forward of the transformer in the psu.
Quantum 8 inch
40 MB hard disk
40 MB hard disk
8 inch hard disk drive chassis. Called a Megastor-Q chassis
Cpu case & floppy drive chassis
18 Slot S100 bus MZ box
S100 bus had terminating resistors at each end of the bus to prevent signal timing problems.
18v (+ & -) DC was supplied to the bus from the psu and each pcb had its own power regulators to provide its own
+5v -5v +12v & -12v
18v (+ & -
Cable from rear connector & external MZ terminal to keyboard input (parallel) on video pcb
Vector 5 images
Mains fan
Power transformer
Smoothing capacitors
Cutout slot allowed cable from pcbs to exit the box to external drives or tape unit
Video out cable to “Mindless Terminal.
Keyboard input cable from terminal
2 Micropolis floppy diskettes inside shielding with their voltage regulators mounted on top of the shield. These drives were only used in the early Vector systems and were single sided hard sectored (315K) but were replaced by Tandon (630K) double sided drives in the Vector 3, 4 and 5 ranges.
