Glitch Works 8085 SBC rev 4 Mini

Name: Glitch Works 8085 SBC rev 4 Mini
SKU: 34563
Price: 9.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.12 (2 reviews)

(2 Reviews)

8085 Single-Board Computer with CP/M 2.2 in Flash and Glitchbus Expansion

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8085 Single-Board Computer with CP/M 2.2 in Flash and Glitchbus Expansion

The Glitch Works 8085 SBC rev 4 Mini is an 8085-based single board computer with Glitchbus expansion. Features include: 8085 CPU at 3.072 MHz 64K onboard static RAM, compatible with FeRAM 512K Flash…

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (5.00)

Documentation: (3.50)

Shipping: (5.00)

Communication: (3.00)

Allison | Sept. 10, 2024

Built and tested full kit and CF board.

Built the kit, goes together fast and worked first time.

Not a big fan of doing bitbash serial but its economical
and cuts the number of parts. However its half duplex so
CTRL-C does not interrupt the IO. Plainly listening while
spinning the CPU is not done.

My goal would be to mod it for a serial IO card as there i a bus for that.
Then I need software sources for the monitor and CP/M BIOS
so I can add "disks" being the CF is far larger than 8MB. The existing
sources only go as a far as the R3 board and nothing about the
CP/M BIOS.

Documentation was more than adequate to build and test but
woefully lacking to do any modification of the software.
The CF board was put together using guess and by golly
as it as mostly just populating the board.

I've emailed the owner and no response.

Allison

Jeremy | June 30, 2024

Fun project for a rainy afternoon

I assembled the kit in about 2 hours and managed to boot it successfully through an FTDI adapter on the first try! The manual was helpful in providing assembly and testing instructions though I would have liked a picture in the manual (or on tindie) of a completed board as a reference example. Shipping was fast and efficient.