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IBM 5160  -  Motherboard Diagrams


IBM's technical reference for the IBM 5160 contains a lot of diagrams.
Following are some motherboard related diagrams that I have created.


Reset flow

Clock generation

NMI generation

Data bus - Simplified

Address bus - Simplified

Speaker circuitry - Simplified

Memory layout of BIOS and BASIC

Possible use of speaker connector for digital input

Digital output via pin PB2 of the 8255 chip

RAM parity generation and comparison

Keyboard interface circuitry

Generation of CS for U18 ROM

64-256KB motherboard - RAS CAS delay