This emulates a JVC-branded controller/drive pair, using RLL encoding,
connected via a small connector electrically compatible with ST-506.
The controller is ST-506 compatible with an extra command for
self-power-off. The option ROM is made by SMS. Commented disassembly is
available for study [1].
The disk is a 3.5" 20MiB "made by Victor", labeled JD3824T100 on the outer
protective casing, JD3824T00-1 on the actual drive. It's 615/2/34
physically, pretends to be a 614/4/17 so that it's type 3 compatible.
[1] https://archive.org/details/v86p-hd
This is a portable computer based around NEC V30 processor and what
seems to be a proprietary Epson chip set.
The chip set provides a XT-class keyboard controller/PPI, controller for
two DD floppy drives, CGA-compatible video, one serial and one parallel
port. There's no datasheet for the chip set.
The machine has a 640x200 monochromatic LCD display, optionally backlit
and an external CRT connector. There can be up to two floppy drives,
one of them optionally connected to an external connector (shared with
the parallel port). There are physical switches to enable the external
CRT and floppy connectors.
There's a battery-backed RTC/NVRAM that holds configuration, including
backlight timeout, UART configuration and floppy types.
The machine has two expansion slots, half the pich of a regular 8-bit
ISA, but electrically compatible. Hard drive and modem adapters were
available, I don't have them.
The checksums of the ROM images are as follows:
SHA1(2d58397f81f006e7729648dd3720e3004e20ac36) =
roms/machines/elt/HLO-B2.rom
SHA1(8c06cd3905f71f15fec2a3759cea5b2c5dc602c3) =
roms/machines/elt/HLO-A2.rom
Use bottom 4 bits (instead of 3) for the NVR type. This will be necessary
in order to support more NVR types (the Epson Equity LT in particular).
No functional change.
