5005E
MZ box -
MT5 Terminal
5010E
5032E
ZCB
1 Flash writer 4 video and 1 64K ram pcb for each user
I/O 2 (Bitstreamer 2)
64K ram for system
FD/HD controller
5MB hard disk
Tandon 630K “16 hard sectored” floppy drive
12 inch green CRT supporting 24 line by 80 columns and a detached “capacitive type” keyboard with 91 keys which included 15 function keys and a 10 numeric pad
As above except with a 10 Mbyte hard disk.
As above but with a 40 Mb 8 inch hard disk connected in an external MZ box, called
a Megastor-
The ZCB contains the Z80B cpu running at 6 Mhz as well as the system and parallel printer proms. Also supports one serial and 3 parallel ports.
The FW4 and 64K memory boards are “paired” via switches for each user (max 3).
The I/O 2 (Bitstreamer ) supports 3 serial printers and two parallel ports. (In this version of the o/s only printers connected to the ZCB are supported.) This pcb generates the interrupts to allocate the time slices for each user.
Flashwriter 4 (FW4) handles video out and keyboard in.
The 5 and 10 Mbyte hard disks can be configured as either all one drive or partitioned into 2 logical drives. The 40 Mbyte system (Quantum HD) is partitioned into 4 x 8 Mbytes logical drives due to CP/M limitations. System can be “booted off” any of these logical drives and can load different printers and software as required.
Could run version 2.55 or 3.0 of CP/M and could switch between them to allow certain software to run. (To do with record and file locking)
Could “spool” printouts to the HD for later printing out. Useful in preventing the system slowing down while trying to access the printers as well as users.