#z80 #sbc #vintagecomputer In this video we take a look at a Z80 single board computer produced by a Los Angeles, California company called Insight Enterprises. Insight Enterprises was one of a zillion small computer makers hoping to cash in on a burgeoning market for personal computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Whether it was market indifference, the steamroller of competition, poor planning, clashing owner personalities, lack of financial resources or some combination thereof, many of these companies winked out before anyone got to know them; sometimes even before an actual product was produced! Today the only traces of their existence are in old periodicals where they advertised their wares. Insight Enterprises by all accounts was one of those flashes in a pan - opening its doors sometime in 1982 and closing them sometime before late 1984. Thankfully we have this rare example of their innovation before us, and for this video, we're going to try and power it up (aka not set it on fire)!
Link to the dumped EPROM:
BIN -https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rN1c0kxgoGhLIZWayXwkNg0tz1mPKREg/view?usp=sharing
HEX - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dNkcJBpoceltCv232Ye8TZgm82KuydBe/view?usp=sharing
0:00 - Intro
6:47 - Is it a prototype?
11:43 - Firing up the IE Z80
12:06 - Taking a dump (of an EPROM)
15:34 - Hunting for power
19:12 - Hunting for vision
25:54 - Power up attempt
26:31 - This looks like New Jersey...
29:50 - But can it type Crysis?
31:48 - A strobe is like a doorbell...
38:48 - One shouldn't wear a black shirt on TV..