Specifications

Intertace Connectors
3.4 1/0 Port Contigurations
The number ot the I/O port connectors that are actually connected
(through ribbon cables) to printed circuit boards inside the
SUPER QUAD is dependent upon the ~articular contiguration you
have selected tor your SUPER STAR system.
A CP/M-based single-user SUPER STAR system has tour ot the seven
1/0 port connectors available to the user (see options). These
consist ot one parallel port connector and two serial ports (Jl
and J2). This contiguration will support a terminal/keyboard
(one ot the serial ports), one serial peripheral (perhaps a
printer) and a parallel peripheral (printer, plotter,' etc.).
A TurboDOS-baseo multi-user SUPER STAR system can have trom tive
to the total seven 1/0 connectors available to the user depending
upon the number ot SUPER SLAVE modules installed in the SUPER
STAR.
A tully contigured TurboDOS-based multi-user SUPER STAR can
support a master terminal/keyboard (one ot the tive serial 1/0
ports), tour remote user stations (the other serial 1/0 ports)
and two parallel 1/0 peripheral devices.
3.5 Internal Ribbon Cable Connectors
In case trouble is encountered with rear chassis 1/0 connectors
that requires an understanding ot the actual pin-to-pin
allocations ot ribbon cables trom the SUPER QUAD or SUPER SLAVE
modules to the 1/0 connectors, reter to Appendix E. Under normal
use, and during system contiguration this intormation is not
required and theretore is not presented in this section.
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