Now we come to the important part of this update. The backplane. The board I’m going to plug the CPU, ROM, RAM, Video, and Ethernet cards into. If the CPU is the brain of a computer, the ...

The RC2014 is a modular 8-bit computer in which daughter cards containing RAM, ROM, serial interface, clock, and Z80 processor are ranged on a backplane board, allowing complete understanding of ...

It was designed to accommodate future technologies by using a high-bandwidth backplane up to 256 bits wide that CPU and peripheral boards plugged into. The first Intel-based Archistrat shipped in ...