RC2014 Z80 based computer kit that you build today!

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In this video we will have a look at the RC2014 Z80 based computer.
This great computer kit will help you with tuning your soldering skills, troubleshooting skills, learn CP/M operating system, and BASIC (Microsoft BASIC 85) programming, and more.
Let's PEEK inside and POKE around.
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RC2014 Computer Slots
Listed here are the slots and cards I use on my RC2014 computer:
Slot 3 - Compact Flash card
Slot 4 - ROM card
Slot 5 - CPU card
Slot 6 - Dual Clock card
Slot 7 - 64K RAM card
Slot 8 - Dual Serial card
You should be able to place the cards in any slot, however I found this works best for my configuration.
You can find more information here.
rc2014.co.uk/
Intro and outro music for Rudy's Retro Intel (full copyrights) granted by:
Thano Productions Inc.
email: thanopapastamoulis@gmail.com
Thank you for watching!

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@davidgrisez 2 месяца назад

In CP/M the PIP name stands for Peripheral Interchange Program. This program was used for copying files in CP/M. I used the CP/M operating system on a Heathkit H89 computer during the early 1980s. It is interesting to see that this very old and bare essentials operating system originally written for the Intel 8080 cpu is still in use and has not completely disappeared.

@RudysRetroIntel 2 месяца назад

Yes, it's amazing that CP/M is still active today. I remember using it in the 80's with my Apple II clone and a CP/M card. The funny thing is that I still remembered the PIP commands. Thanks for commenting

@MoreFunMakingIt Год назад

What a cool little machine!

@RudysRetroIntel Год назад

Indeed it is. Thanks for watching and commenting

@2010Thex Год назад

Very nice project to help sharpen skills, and in the end, you have a fun little computer. Great video!

@RudysRetroIntel Год назад

Thank you very much!

@CaptainCommodore Год назад

Nice video chap , looks like it has some community behind the rc2014

@RudysRetroIntel Год назад

Thank you!! Yes, there are many people behind this and has been growing ever since 2014. Thanks for commenting

@CayMacVintage Год назад

Loved it. Will look into getting it also to play around with it.

@RudysRetroIntel Год назад

Thanks for watching and commenting. It's a fun little project, and the community for it is quite large.

@UnbrokenCheese 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video. If I ever get my original N8VEM working, I'd like to build an RC2014 kit next

@RudysRetroIntel 6 месяцев назад

You're welcome, and thanks for sharing

@jamesmorton7881 7 месяцев назад

I learned Z80 on a Phi Deck. Dual tape drives. A whopping 6MHZ clock. Back in 1980. Fast forward to 2012 1200MHZ. PowerPC QUIC III. Signal integrity required.

@RudysRetroIntel 7 месяцев назад

Nice!! Back in the 80's I was learning CPM on an Apple II clone with s CPM card running at 6Mhz. Fun times compiling code. Thanks for sharing and commenting

@mmaldonadojr 5 месяцев назад

A lovely kit, my only concern is about the reliability of those headers from the backplane, they can stand a very limited number of insertion cycles before starting to show faulty contacts.

@RudysRetroIntel 5 месяцев назад

These are used to keep the price down, but I agree, and thanks for commenting

@8BitNaptime Год назад

This tickles the part of my brain that likes slots that demand to be filled.

@RudysRetroIntel Год назад

Lol!! Enjoy, and thanks for commenting

@8BitNaptime Год назад

@@RudysRetroIntelI miss those days. Like Amiga 3000 days... I had mine filled to bursting with things I almost never used. This is the correct way to use computers IMO.

@RudysRetroIntel Год назад

Indeed!! I did the same on my Apple II+. It's great to have a full stocked computer!!

@DAVIDGREGORYKERR Год назад

A clock crystal frequency would be 4Mhz for ZILOG Z80 and ZILOG Z80A, I think that a ZILOG Z800 version should be created and would allow you to run the version of UNIX for the ZILOG Z800.

@RudysRetroIntel Год назад

It would be great to also run UNIX! Thanks for commenting

@SpeccyMan 7 месяцев назад

These boards use a Z80 that can run at 8MHz but they are usually clocked at a slightly lower frequency of 7.3728MHz as that clock can be successively divided by 2 to generate clocks for the UART. i.e. 7,372,800 divided by 64 gives 115,200.

@RudysRetroIntel 7 месяцев назад

Excellent information, and thanks for sharing

@SusanAmberBruce 8 месяцев назад

Very helpful video thanks

@RudysRetroIntel 8 месяцев назад

You're welcome! More to come, and thanks for commenting

@ssl3546 6 месяцев назад

What's particularly interesting to me about this is the CPU card could be replaced with other CPU cards to play with other architectures, the hard work can be amortized that way. Lots of exotic old CPUs out there that would be fun to play with that aren't popular with the retro community

@RudysRetroIntel 6 месяцев назад

That is very interesting. It would be amazing to see other cpu cards used. I only wish I had time to work on that. Great idea! Thanks for sharing and commenting

@ntal5859 4 месяца назад

They did that back in the 70s look up S-100 bus standard, you could swap to different CPU like 6502 or z80 etc.

@mikecook317 3 месяца назад

I also "race" my BASIC programs. I do it on emulators, not real hardware. PC-BASIC always wins, of course. I wish i had the skills to build something like this.

@RudysRetroIntel 3 месяца назад

Thanks for commenting and letting me know about PC-BASIC

@PWingert1966 10 месяцев назад

Now if it runs CP/M< it might be intersting.

@RudysRetroIntel 10 месяцев назад

Actually, it runs on CP/M

@daviddrabble494 8 месяцев назад

Hi, do you have a link for the StarWars.Bas game?

@RudysRetroIntel 8 месяцев назад

Sorry, I don't. It's actually just text scrolling of the Star Wars story. I thought it was a game.

@daviddrabble494 8 месяцев назад

@@RudysRetroIntel OK, thanks. At least I can stop Googling starwars.bas :)

@ntal5859 4 месяца назад

First cpu project at uni a was z80...but why anyone would use this in 2024 has me baffled.

@RudysRetroIntel 4 месяца назад

It's a great way to introduce people into simpler projects and learn about CPUs. I haven't seen any learning kits where you solder a computer together and put in an i9 processor. Thanks for commenting

@VulpisFoxfire 4 месяца назад

@@RudysRetroIntel Yeah, I miss Heathkit...

@beforth 8 месяцев назад

Just two words... agon light.

@RudysRetroIntel 8 месяцев назад

Yes, agon light is a great project. This project is great for people who want to improve their solding, troubleshooting, and program skills. Different computer but still very big community and lots of fun to be had. I will do an agon light video later this year. Thanks for commenting.

@SpeccyMan 7 месяцев назад

Just eight words: Not nearly as much of a community yet.

@beforth 7 месяцев назад

Just 1 word more... "Neo6502".

@RudysRetroIntel 7 месяцев назад

@@beforth not heard of this one. Will have to take a look. Thanks for commenting