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