Web Finding: 8088 Mini-PC (xi-8088) By Sergey Kiselev

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• Thread starter Thread starter 1ST1
• Start date Start date Sep 29, 2018

1ST1

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Joined Oct 21, 2014 Messages 1,989 Location near frankfurt/m, germany Hello, there is an interesting home made PC project. See http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergeys-projects/xi-8088 https://github.com/skiselev/micro_8088 J

jh1523

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Joined Jan 15, 2009 Messages 298 Location coastal New England This has been discussed here for many years; some people here (me included) have built it. It's a nice project and a good way to learn about old hardware. X

Xacalite

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Joined Feb 13, 2015 Messages 754 Location Warsaw

Xi 8088 is an IBM PC/XT compatible processor board in ISA board form factor. It offers several enhancements over the standard IBM PC/XT, such as support of PS/2 keyboard and mouse and built-in real time clock with NVRAM (also known as CMOS setup memory). Click to expand...

In other words: it's more like PS/2 Model 30 (or 25), than XT. M

mbbrutman

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Staff member Joined May 2, 2003 Messages 6,640 Sergey was an exhibitor at VCF Pacific Northwest back in February. We had a lot of great exhibitors so it's not fair to say that Sergey stole the show, but his exhibit was definitely popular. (This is yet another reason to try to make it to the local retro-computing events if you can.) B

bobba84

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Joined Jan 5, 2014 Messages 560 Location Melbourne, Australia Ohhh why was I born on a convict island... :/ M

mbbrutman

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Staff member Joined May 2, 2003 Messages 6,640 I have visited Sydney twice in the past few years. The convicts are pretty well behaved. However, the bin-chickens are a bit of problem ... If you are curious I'll tell you how to organize a VCF event. A

alank2

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Joined Aug 3, 2016 Messages 2,404 Location USA I'd love to see some pictures of this project for anyone who has built it! J

jh1523

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Joined Jan 15, 2009 Messages 298 Location coastal New England Mine is unfortunately in a storage box; but here's someone else's build log: http://www.smbaker.com/building-an-xi-8088-pc I did not build all the parts that he did, just the main SBC. I bought a backplane from ebay, and used regular I/O card and VGA card.

Chuck(G)

Gone, but never forgotten.

Joined Jan 11, 2007 Messages 46,048 Location Pacific Northwest, USA Speaking of mini-PCs, whatever happened to Valentin's 8052-based XT emulator project? I thought it was pretty clever. M

mbbrutman

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Staff member Joined May 2, 2003 Messages 6,640 He has moved onto other projects: https://www.fleasystems.com/ I have one of the original Flea XT boards, with an expansion chassis so I can use ISA cards. It's quite trippy, but it's also pretty much a one-off at this point ...

Chuck(G)

Gone, but never forgotten.

Joined Jan 11, 2007 Messages 46,048 Location Pacific Northwest, USA Nice to see that he's still active.

BloodyCactus

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Joined Oct 18, 2015 Messages 291 Location Lexington VA

1ST1 said: Hello, there is an interesting home made PC project. See http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergeys-projects/xi-8088 https://github.com/skiselev/micro_8088 Click to expand...

be aware, if you build xi8088, a lot of us on vogons did a build and we all had problems. There is some kind of race condition or timing issue with the board, we could never figure it out. Your better off looking at the micro-8088 he made using the faraday chipset. I believe its known to be working much better.

Ruud

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Joined Nov 30, 2009 Messages 1,774 Location Heerlen, NL

BloodyCactus said: be aware, if you build xi8088, a lot of us on vogons did a build and we all had problems. There is some kind of race condition or timing issue with the board, we could never figure it out. Your better off looking at the micro-8088 he made using the faraday chipset. I believe its known to be working much better. Click to expand...

I have two boards and I never experienced problems. But one board runs at 30/10 MHz and the other at 40/13.33 MHz. You must log in or register to reply here. Share: Facebook X Bluesky LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email Share Link

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