Ampro LittleBoard/186 SBC

 

 

June 19, 2020

A quick update on this. I was able to get this board working for a while but it seems to suffer from overheating. Not sure why. The unit actually was part of a hard drive testing machine for Xebec -- the ROMs are custom ROMs. I tried running it with an SCSI2SD and a floppy drive. The floppy worked for a while but then I started having the aforementioned heat problem. So, I shelved it and maybe I'll come back to it.

August 10, 2007

Last week I picked-up a neat single-board computer from the mid-1980's manufactured by Ampro -- the LittleBoard/186. The LB186 is the second in a series of single-board computers (following the the BigBoard Z80-based SBC).

This SBC is in a 5-1/4" form factor (8" x 5.5") so it could be bolted to a floppy drive. I believe that this was the first SBC that was designed in what would become the EBX form factor.

Disks

Manuals

    Below are scans of the manuals that came with the board:

ROMs

Contributed Programs

 

 

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