RC2014: First Power-On

In this series of videos I'll be assembling an RC2014 Pro, a Z80 based microcomputer available for purchase online. I received this as a Christmas gift from Mrs B, after giving her some significant hints as to what I'd like. The RC2014 is a brilliant design IMHO, and will be used by me as the foundation for many of my Z80-based hardware and software experiments. If you've been following this series, you'll know that the kit has now been assembled. In this video I'll start incrementally testing the modules, starting with the backplane, the dual clock module, then the RAM, ROM, CPU and Serial I/O modules, and will be attempting to boot into Microsoft BASIC, one of the images supplied in the kit on ROM. I'll leave testing the Compact Flash board for a future video, as that is an optional module required for CP/M. Link to RC2014 website: https://rc2014.co.uk/ Link to the RC2014 Pro assembly guides: https://rc2014.co.uk/assembly-guides/ Link to PuTTY download: https://www.putty.org/ Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:31 Visual inspection of backplane 01:19 Checking for potential short on power socket 02:35 Powering the backplane for the first time 04:51 Check the 5V line on the headers 07:14 Install and test the dual clock module 15:49 Install the serial I/O module 18:49 Install the 64K RAM module 21:55 Install the pageable ROM module 25:09 Install the Z80 CPU module 26:04 Connect the FTDI card to the serial I/O module 28:50 Connect the RC2014 to a PC and configure PuTTY 32:14 Power up the RC2014 33:20 Hello World! 34:02 Post Mortem 36:57 Outro