8870 Documentation
One activity thats constantly ongoing is searching for 8870 System documentation as its rather hard to find these days. Below you will find a list of what I've currently got available with download links. If you have some 8870 documentation that you can share, please get in touch and I’ll add it to the list.
NIROS 3.2 + TAMOS
(38 MB PDF)
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NIROS 3.3
This is the original NIROS 3.3 manual from October 1979.
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NIROS 5.0/02
German (71 MB PDF) (Thanks to VAXMAN and Rikka for this one)
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NIROS 5.0/03
(30 MB PDF)
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NIROS 7.0/00/19
This document also seems to cover the introduction of the BA80 VDU. Looks like some interesting technical information.
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NIROS 7.0/02
(73 MB PDF)
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BASIC Programmers (German)German (215 MB PDF) This is a BASIC programmers manual from 1985 (updated 1986)
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BASIC Programmers (English)
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English version. This is a BASIC programmers manual from 1985 (updated 1986). It also includes some hand written comments detailing some undocumented features.
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BASIC Program Tuning (English)
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English version. This manual contains information and tips on tuning BASIC programs to run as fast and efficiently as possible. It also gives instruction execution times which all makes interesting reading.
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Description of program interfaces(English) 78 MB PDF
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MODEL 1 - Technical Reference Manual Release 3.3 - German (250 MB PDF)
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Summary of I/O card assignmentsEnglish (56 MB PDF)
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Micro 7 Operation ManualGerman (23 MB PDF)
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Micro 7 Installation ManualGerman (8 MB PDF)
This manual also contains a list of the main status display error codes. These aren't the same status codes that the larger 8870's display. |
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Reader supplied information
Sometimes people send me Emails containing quite detailed technical information. I will add these here to help preserve them.
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After a plea for information, somebody replied to me with the attached file. It contains some pretty technical information on how the CPUs work and their internal Micro-Code.
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Marketing brochures and other literature
8870/1 and 8870/3 Magnetic Disk SystemEnglish (7 MB PDF)
Probably from the 1970's or early 1980's this is a standard type sales and marketing brochure with loads of pretty pictures. |
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