AViiON AV5500

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When I embarked on this hobby I made a pact with myself to stick to the ‘proprietary‘ DG CPU designs those being the native Nova/Eclipse and MV machines, however I recently stumbled across an Motorola 88110 based Data General AViiON server and intrigue took hold especially when the owner confirmed that it had a full set of documentation and software.

Other than an initial inspection and investigation/backup of the M48T08 (battery backed SRAM I found hiding behind the secondary SCSI controller) this project is on hold whilst I finish some earlier projects.

…………………more on this in 2020!

High Res picture of the main PCB:

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